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Kinsella On LibertyKOL453 | Objections to Argumentation Ethics, Libertarian Property Rights, Scarcity, Intellectual Property: Discussion with a StudentKinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 453.
I was approached recently by my old friend, legal scholar and philosopher David Koepsell (a fellow opponent of IP who appeared on the John Stossel show with me a few years back), (( KOL308 | Stossel: It’s My Idea (2015). )) as one of his students at Texas A&M, Eliot Kalinov, was interested in my and Hoppe's work on argumentation ethics and related issues. I offered to have a discussion with Eliot about these issues for his research and publication plans, which we did yesterday (Feb. 18, 2025). We recorded it for his own purposes, and I post it her...
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CinePhilsCinePhils Episode 30- The Aliens Franchise - XenoPhilsExistential themes in the Aliens films, questions of humanity, isolation, the Other, AIs and their natures, playing God, and meeting our gods. Special guest segment with Dr. Kim Baltzer-Jaray on gender in the Alien films
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2024-09-2447 minCinePhilsCinePhils, Take 29: Kubrick’s Clockwork Orange, “goodness is something to be chosen”Viddying ultraviolence, free will, and behaviorism in the dystopian neoliberal state. And Beethoven, of course.
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2024-05-2055 minCinePhilsCinephile, Take 28: Kubrick’s The Shining, or “Danny’s not here, Mrs. Torrance”Madness, obsession, terrible cases of writer’s block, and other things philosophers go through.
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2024-02-221h 13CinePhilsCinePhils, Take 27: Wes Anderson’s Grand Budapest Hotel and The Life Aquatic, or “Viewmaster”Actually it is take 27, we’ve been away for too long. Nostalgia, simplicity, yearning, and a bit of humanity is the cure for cynicism. Also, well constructed cinematic, symmetrical camera work and such.
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2024-02-131h 09CinePhilsCinePhils, Take 26: Paul T. Anderson’s Punch Drunk Love, or “that’s that, mattress man!”Rob and David hold forth on lyrical images, Sandler seriously acting, virtues of love in the spectrum, non-musical musicals, pudding and air miles, and having a love in your life that makes one stronger than anything you can imagine.
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2023-11-231h 11
Radio Aula MundiBridging the gap # 13: Question for Denise Lajimodiere, an Ojibwe poet...David Richard Koepsell, an American author, philosopher, attorney, and educator, has a question for Denise Lajimodiere, an Ojibwe poet and poet laureate of North Dakota, 2023 – 2025...
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Denise Lajimodiere is an Ojibwe poet and the author of Stringing Rosaries (North Dakota State University Press, 2019). She is among the founders of the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition. She lives on the Turtle Mountain Reservation, in North
Dakota. In 2023, she was appointed poet laureate of North Dakota, 2023 – 2025. •••
https://youtu.be/828fZidZqYU https://poets.org/poet/denise-lajimodiere https://www.firstpeoplesfund.org/denise-lajimodiere https://www.amazon.com/Books-Denise...
2023-11-0501 minCinePhilsCinePhils, Take 25: Scorsese’s After Hours, or “I’m just a word processor, for Christ’s sake!”David and Rob discuss Scorsese’s hangups on women, fire, and dangerous things. Griffin Dunne’s problems selling his freak outs, alternate worlds when the bars close, Henry Miller and the problem with men in the 80s.
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2023-10-301h 14CinePhilsCinePhils, Take 24: Ford’s “The Searchers” and Scorsese’s “Taxi Driver,” epic films of hideous menJohn Wayne vs. Robert DeNiro, on being awful and not knowing it, beautiful vistas, claustrophobic spaces, New York, incels, and the desaturated color of blood.
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2023-10-061h 16CinePhilsCinePhils, Take 23: Alex Cox’s Walker and Highway Patrolman, or “¿por qué hablamos tanto tiempo?”Rob and I forget the time and have a long, wide-ranging discussion of two Alex Cox films, one of which ended his Hollywood career, and the other of which is a great Mexican film albeit filmed by a Brit. Politics, ethics, cops, colonialism, and of course some philosophy too.
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2023-09-221h 26CinePhilsCinePhils, Take 22: Pontecorvo’s Battle of Algiers and Burn! Or, “Brando’s got what plants crave!”David and Rob discuss Colonialism, propaganda, Italian realism, and cinema verité. A bit of philosophy too.
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2023-09-131h 07CinePhilsCinePhils, Take 21: Lumet’s 12 Angry Men and Serpico, or (the “Cursed Episode”)Rob and David discuss legal epistemology, post-truth, Justice, and the unbearable whining of whistleblowers, all while surviving internet outages, failures to record, etc.
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2023-08-111h 04CinePhilsCinePhils, Take 20: Kurosawa’s High and Low, or “Kingo Gondo mondo loco.”The social geography of class, police procedurals, and the cinematography of bottle episodes, inter alia.
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2023-07-0657 minCinePhilsCinePhils, Take 19: Yojimbo and Fistful of Dollars, or “plagiarism is the sincerest form of flatteryWherein Rob and David consider lone wolves, moral ambiguity, intellectual property, and Japanese westerns.
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2023-06-131h 03CinePhilsCinePhils, Take 18: le Samourai, by Jean-Pierre Melville or “essentiellement le modèle de Ghost Dog”Rob and David consider fedoras, trench coats, and various cinematic tropes.
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2023-05-271h 01CinePhilsCinePhils, Take 17: Jim Jarmusch’s Ghost Dog and Coffee and Cigarettes, or “acoustic resonance”Samurais, bushido, caffeine, nicotine, Roshomon, Mahler, and a what we have here is a failure to communicate. Pretty much all of it here in one episode.
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2023-05-151h 04CinePhilsCinePhils, Take 16: Wong Kar-wai’s Fallen Angels and Chungking Express, or “pineapple, anyone?”David and Rob ruminate about Hong Kong pre-turnover, love, grunge, cops, assassins, expired pineapples, and nostalgia for things one never had.
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2023-05-031h 04Radio Aula MundiBridging the gap # 5: Question for Ann-Margaret Lim, a Jamaican poet…Bridging the gap # 5: Question for Ann-Margaret Lim, a Jamaican poet… David Richard Koepsell, an American author, philosopher, attorney, and educator has a question for Ann-Margaret Lim, a Jamaican poet… Ann-Margaret Lim lives in Red Hills, Jamaica. She is the author of Kingston Buttercup (Peepal Tree Press, 2016), longlisted for the 2017 OCM Bocas
Prize in Poetry, and The Festival of Wild Orchid (Peepal Tree Press, 2012), a nominee for the UK Guardian First Book Prize. She has been published in journals, anthologies and her country’s two major newspapers. --- https://japoetryarchive.nlj.gov.jm/poet-profile-ann-margaret-lim/ https...
2023-04-2806 minCinePhilsCinePhils, Take 15: Terry Gilliam’s Brazil, or “Listen, kid. We’re all in this together.”David and Rob consider ducts, dream states, corporate fascism, and the liberating power of imagination. Did we mention ducts?
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2023-04-181h 10CinePhilsCinePhils, Take 14: Tarkovsky’s Stalker, or “Rob and David get in the Zone”Starkly different views on Stalker from our two hosts who muse about the metaphysics of The Zone, the Soviet state and its moodiness, and visceral responses to movies.
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2023-04-111h 04CinePhilsCinePhils, Take 13: John Carpenter’s In The Mouth of Madness, or “Reality isn’t what it used to be”Lovecraftian horror, elder gods, ancient ones, and the metaphysics of fiction are among our topics. We also surmise that the Einstein-Rosenberg bridge is covered and wooden, and Stephen King is rightfully lambasted.
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2023-04-041h 03CinePhilsCinePhils, Take 12: Wim Wenders’ Until the End of The World, or “I still love you, broken ladder”Rob and David riff on road movies, cosmopolitanism, the dangers of video and cheap images, and U2.
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2023-03-251h 08CinePhilsCinePhils, Take 11: Ken Russell's Altered States, or "Monsieur, don't try to be funny with me. He is your monkey, therefore it is your money."David and Rob take a trip into hyperspace, agree on William Hurt's carrying the film, explore the nature of reality, evolution, good and bad special effects, and Paddy Chayefsky's dialogue which is not exactly a Platonic ideal.
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2023-03-141h 05CinePhilsCinePhils, Take 10: Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, the Final Cut, or “That’s the Spirit!”Rob and David ponder identity, selves, replicants, and the Ubermensch while geeking out to their favorite sci-if masterpiece.
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2023-03-071h 06CinePhilsCinePhils, Take 9: Coppola’s The Conversation & Penn’s Night Moves, or “All the Gene U can Hack,man”David and Rob discuss nihilism and gratuitous ingenue nudity in the neo-noir Night Moves, and the layered. brilliance and a God’s eye view in The Conversation.
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2023-02-281h 12Radio Aula MundiDavid Koepsell: “What is happiness?”David Richard Koepsell is an American author, philosopher, attorney, and educator whose recent research focuses on how ethics and public policy deal with emerging science and technology.
He has been a practicing attorney, been employed as an ontologist, been a university professor, and has lectured worldwide.
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Interview conducted by Nikolai Taras and Marco Rixecker
https://www.amazon.com/author/marcorixecker
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At the moment, Radio Aula Mundi is an evolving podcast station where no language and all languages are spoken…
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2023-02-2703 minRadio Aula MundiDavid Koepsell: “What is happiness?”David Richard Koepsell is an American author, philosopher, attorney, and educator whose recent research focuses on how ethics and public policy deal with emerging science and technology.
He has been a practicing attorney, been employed as an ontologist, been a university professor, and has lectured worldwide.
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Interview conducted by Nikolai Taras and Marco Rixecker
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Radio Aula Mundi, February 2023
At the moment, Radio Aula Mundi is an evolving podcast station where no language and all languages are spoken…
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2023-02-2702 minCinePhilsCinePhils, Take 8: Hitchcock’s Marnie, or “Edgar, Marnie Edgar.”David and Rob consider two interpretations of the film, Nietzschean vs. Sartrean. Is Mark Ruttland a hero or villain?
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2023-02-211h 03CinePhilsCinePhils, Take 7: Clouzot’s The Devils and Wages of Fear, or “mensonges et camions”Rob and David talk about French existentialism and two works of brilliant but unfortunately and tragically not prolific director Henri-George Clouzot who defined the thriller genre for directors to come.
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2023-02-141h 07CinePhilsCinePhils, Take 6: William Friedkin’s Sorcerer, or “We’re gonna need a bigger truck!”Rob and I finally manage to sound like we’re in the same room that isn’t being broadcast from Mars, audio-wise, more or less, and take on this fascinating end-of-an-era 70’s hidden gem.
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2023-02-071h 01
CinePhilsCinePhils, Take 5: Truffaut's Day for Night and Fosse's All That Jazz, or "c'est l'heure du spectacle!"Rob and David discuss the influence of 8 1/2 on these two works, their merits and weaknesses, and riff a bit on the Oscar nominees.
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2023-01-3158 minCinePhilsCinePhils, Take 4: Fellini's 8 1/2, or "Hyper-realism, Italian Style"Some day soon we will get the audio right. Meanwhile, we had far too much fun with this to try again. Bear with it, and we will too!
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2023-01-241h 04CinePhilsCinePhils Take 3: Contempt, or “And Godard created Cinema”David and Rob discuss Jean-Luc Godard’s most commercial movie: Contempt (1963)
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2023-01-171h 00CinePhilsCinePhils, Take 2: Fritz Lang’s ‘M,’ or “you despise me, don’t you, Lohmann?”David and Rob discuss Fritz Lang’s classic first talkie, staring Peter Lorre as a serial killer in Weimar Germany.
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2023-01-101h 10CinePhilsCinePhils Take 1, Touch of Evil, or Get your paws off me you damned dirty Quinlan!Rob and David discuss Orson Welles’s classic noir film A Touch of Evil from a philosophical perspective.
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2023-01-0400 min
Science Magazine PodcastKurt Vonnegut’s contribution to science, and tunas and sharks as ecosystem indicatorsOn this week’s show: How sci-fi writer Kurt Vonnegut foresaw many of today’s ethical dilemmas, and 70 years of tunas, billfishes, and sharks as sentinels of global ocean health
First up this week on the podcast, we revisit the works of science fiction author Kurt Vonneugt on what would have been his 100th birthday. News Intern Zack Savitsky and host Sarah Crespi discuss the work of ethicists, philosophers, and Vonnegut scholars on his influence on the ethics and practice of science.
Researchers featured in this segment:
Peter-Paul Verbeek, a philosopher of science and tech...
2022-11-1042 minKinsella On LibertyKOL375 | Mentally Unscripted Ep55 – Why IP Laws Destroy Innovation and How Creatives Can Profit Without ThemKinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 375.
This is my appearance on Ep.55 of Mentally Unscripted. Recorded Feb. 8, 2022; released Feb. 10, 2022.
Transcript below.
https://youtu.be/8SrUo79eiLk
Related links:
Examples of Ways Content Creators Can Profit Without Intellectual Property
The Creator-Endorsed Mark as an Alternative to Copyright
Do Business Without Intellectual Property (PDF)
KOL 037 | Locke’s Big Mistake: How the Labor Theory of Property Ruined Political Theory
Locke, Smith, Marx; the Labor Theory of Property and the Labor Theory of Value; and Rothbard, Gordon, and Intellectual Property
Legal Scholars: Thumbs Down on Patent and Copyright
The Overwhelming Empirical Case Against Patent and Copy...
2022-02-111h 01Kinsella On LibertyKOL308 | Stossel: It’s My Idea (2015)Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 308.
This is my appearance on John Stossel’s Fox Business News show, Stossel, back on Jan. 30, 2015. I just realized I had never put it here in my podcast feed, so here it is. The full episode is streamed below (I recommend also my friend David Koepsell's segment); my audio clip is included in this podcast episode. Discussed further in KOL171 | With Albert Lu Discussing Stossel and IP.
Grok shownotes and transcript below.
From: Stossel Show on Intellectual Property
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A few weeks ago I was invited to appear on an upcoming episode of John Stossel's Fox Bus...
2020-12-2900 min
Crypto UntangledENCRYPGEN - The Only Functioning Blockchain-Mediated Genetic Data Marketplace“Everyone in the world is the owner of something valuable for the future and this is called DNA”.DNA is very valuable and important for everybody’s life. It holds the solutions to many problems; it holds the key to a better future. DNA is very vital for us, for everything that surrounds us. “It is important for inheritance, coding for proteins and the genetic instruction guide for life and its processes. DNA holds the instructions for an organism's or each cell’s development, reproduction and ultimately death.” - Dr. Ananya Mandal, MDIn today’s episode, I a...
2020-10-2030 min
Building on BlockchainBuilding on Blockchain pt. 10 ft. David KoepsellDavid Koepsell, JD, PhD, is an author, philosopher, attorney and educator whose recent research focuses on ethics, public policy, emerging science & technology. David is also the founder and CEO of EncrypGen, a software company that created a blockchain-based marketplace for people to buy and sell genomic data for money. His book "Who Owns You?" is available now via Amazon.
Details on David and EncrypGen: https://www.elc.team/post/building-on-blockchain-pt-10-ft-david-koepsell
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2020-03-251h 07
Health Unchained PodcastEp. 57: General Purpose Healthcare Framework – Tatyana Kanzaveli (CEO Open Health Network)Tatyana Kanzaveli, TedX speaker, successful computer scientist and data lover who started off her career as a multi-disciplinary consultant at Pricewaterhousecoopers. She had many leadership roles throughout her career and started her own company a few years ago after being diagnosed with cancer. Her company, Open Health Network is a general purpose platform that leverages AI and blockchain to create a personalized patient experience that can be whitelabeled for enterprise clients. Show Notes•Introduction of Tatyana's background•Journey from Azerbaijan to the US and into healthcare entrepreneurship •Experience being diagnosed with cancer•Experience navigati...
2020-03-021h 15
Health Unchained PodcastEp. 57: General Purpose Healthcare Framework – Tatyana Kanzaveli (CEO Open Health Network)Tatyana Kanzaveli, TedX speaker, successful computer scientist and data lover who started off her career as a multi-disciplinary consultant at Pricewaterhousecoopers. She had many leadership roles throughout her career and started her own company a few years ago after being diagnosed with cancer. Her company, Open Health Network is a general purpose platform that leverages AI and blockchain to create a personalized patient experience that can be whitelabeled for enterprise clients.
Show Notes
•Introduction of Tatyana's background
•Journey from Azerbaijan to the US and into healthcare entrepreneurship
•Experience being diagnosed with cancer
•Experience navigating the healthcare system
•Origins of Open Health Net...
2020-03-021h 16
CRYPTO 101Ep. 200 - The 23andMe Dilemma w/ Dr. David Koepsell*** this is not financial or legal advice***
Over 5 million people have been tested by 23andMe. The process is simple. You pay about 100USD to the company and they send you a kit. You are waiting for some genetic information about your ancestery, your aliments, possible future health issues. Seems like a good deal. But, did you know that they then take your DNA data and sell it to whoever wants it?
Our next guest Dr. Dave Koepsell tell us all about this process and also lets us know how you can take control if this data and either not give it...
2019-01-1742 min
Health Unchained PodcastEp. 10: Genetics Marketplace Ethics - Dr. David Koepsell (CEO Encrypgen)In this episode, we talk about genomic data ownership and privacy ethics with David Koepsell, lawyer, author, and philosopher.http://davidkoepsell.com/Check out the Encrypgen Market Demo - https://marketdemo.encrypgen.info/Show Notes• Introduction of David’s background• Brief journey into blockchain • Patenting genes and ownership of personal data• Origins of Encrypgen - value proposition to upload individual genetic information securely on a research marketplace• Multichain, used by Encypgen, is built specifically for permissioned blockchain and satisfies the requirements of GDPR• Importance of Individual Metadata to make Genetic inform...
2018-08-191h 04
Health Unchained PodcastEp. 10: Genetics Marketplace Ethics - Dr. David Koepsell (CEO Encrypgen)In this episode, we talk about genomic data ownership and privacy ethics with David Koepsell, lawyer, author, and philosopher.
http://davidkoepsell.com/
Check out the Encrypgen Market Demo - https://marketdemo.encrypgen.info/
Show Notes
• Introduction of David’s background
• Brief journey into blockchain
• Patenting genes and ownership of personal data
• Origins of Encrypgen - value proposition to upload individual genetic information securely on a research marketplace
• Multichain, used by Encypgen, is built specifically for permissioned blockchain and satisfies the requirements of GDPR
• Importance of Individual Metadata to make Genetic information valuable
• Search capability of the genetic data and metadata
• Value of genotypin...
2018-08-191h 05Kinsella On LibertyKOL235 | Intellectual Property: A First Principles Debate (Federalist Society POLICYbrief)Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 235.
This is a short video produced by the Federalist Society (Feb. 6, 2018), featuring me and IP law professor Kristen Osenga (I had met Osenga previously, as a co-panelist at an IP panel at NYU School of Law in 2011). I was pleasantly surprised that the Federalist Society was willing to give the anti-IP side a voice—more on this below. To produce this video, Osenga and I each spoke separately, before a green screen, in studios in our own cities, for about 30 minutes. The editing that boiled this down to about 5 minutes total was superbly done.
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2018-02-0705 minKinsella On LibertyKOL171 | With Albert Lu Discussing Stossel and IPKinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 171.
I was a guest yesterday (Feb. 6, 2015) on Albert Lu's "The Economy" podcast, discussing my recent appearance on Stossel [Stossel Show on Intellectual Property (Fox Business Channel, Jan. 30, 2015)]. The full episode is here; the portion including only our interview is included in this podcast feed.
Transcript and grok shownotes below.
GROK SHOWNOTES
Show Notes: KOL171 | The Albert Lu Podcast: Discussing Stossel and Intellectual Property with Stephan Kinsella
Introduction to Intellectual Property Debate [0:00–1:00]
Albert Lu introduces the topic of intellectual property (IP) by referencing a recent episode of The John Stossel Show that explored the concept. He hi...
2015-02-0724 min
SuchThatCast - Behind the PhilosophyEpisode 7: David KoepsellDavid Koepsell earned his PhD in philosophy as well as his law degree from the University at Buffalo, where he studied with Barry Smith. He has authored numerous articles as well as authored and edited several books, including Searle on the Institutions of Social Reality, The Ontology of Cyberspace: Law, Philosophy, and the Future of Intellectual Property. He has lectured worldwide on issues ranging from civil rights, philosophy, science, ontology, intellectual property theory, society, and religion. Koepsell has practiced law, worked for Bowstreet, Inc. as an ontologist in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and taught at the University at Buffalo. He...
2013-02-131h 05
Underreported from WNYC's The Leonard Lopate ShowUnderreported: Gene PatentingTwenty percent of the human genome has been patented by biotechnology companies, universities, and research institutions. The patenting of two genes associated with breast and ovarian cancer is also the subject of a lawsuit filed by the ACLU and the Public Patent Foundation against Myriad Genetics, a company that offers diagnostic tests for the genes. On today’s Underreported segment we’ll look at the controversial practice of gene patenting and the serious ethical, medical, and public policy questions it raises. We’ll be joined by Dr. David Koepsell, a philosopher, attorney, and Assistant Professor at the Technology University of Del...
2009-10-2235 min
Point of InquiryDavid Koepsell - Who Owns You?David Koepsell is an author, philosopher, and attorney whose recent research focuses on the nexus of science, technology, ethics, and public policy. He is Assistant Professor, Philosophy Section, Faculty of Technology, Policy, and Management at the Technology University of Delft, in The Netherlands, andSenior Fellow, 3TU Centre for Ethics and Technology, The Netherlands. He is also the author of The Ontology of Cyberspace: Philosophy, Law, and the Future of Intellectual Property, as well as numerous scholarly articles on law, philosophy, science, and ethics.
In this interview with D.J. Grothe, David Koepsell discusses the implications of corporations patenting parts of...
2009-05-0929 minPoint of InquiryDavid Koepsell - Who Owns You?David Koepsell is an author, philosopher, and attorney whose recent research focuses on the nexus of science, technology, ethics, and public policy. He is Assistant Professor, Philosophy Section, Faculty of Technology, Policy, and Management at the Technology University of Delft, in The Netherlands, andSenior Fellow, 3TU Centre for Ethics and Technology, The Netherlands. He is also the author of The Ontology of Cyberspace: Philosophy, Law, and the Future of Intellectual Property, as well as numerous scholarly articles on law, philosophy, science, and ethics.
In this interview with D.J. Grothe, David Koepsell discusses the implications of corporations patenting parts of...
2009-05-0929 minPoint of InquiryDavid Koepsell - Why Secular Humanism?David Koepsell is the Executive Director of the Council for Secular Humanism, North America's leading organization for nonreligious people. An author, philosopher and an attorney, David's work focuses mostly on the nexus of science, technology, ethics and public policy.
In this discussion with D.J. Grothe, David explores the relationship between secular humanism and religion, whether secular humanism is just a religion for the nonreligious, the "tenets" of secular humanism, and addresses many challenges to the worldview both from Christian activists and from those in the "atheist movement." He also justifies it as a viable naturalistic life-stance, competitive with supernatural...
2007-05-1828 minPoint of InquiryDavid Koepsell - Why Secular Humanism?David Koepsell is the Executive Director of the Council for Secular Humanism, North America's leading organization for nonreligious people. An author, philosopher and an attorney, David's work focuses mostly on the nexus of science, technology, ethics and public policy.
In this discussion with D.J. Grothe, David explores the relationship between secular humanism and religion, whether secular humanism is just a religion for the nonreligious, the "tenets" of secular humanism, and addresses many challenges to the worldview both from Christian activists and from those in the "atheist movement." He also justifies it as a viable naturalistic life-stance, competitive with supernatural...
2007-05-1828 minPoint of InquiryPaul Kurtz - World War and World ReligionsPaul Kurtz is founder and chair of the Center for Inquiry and a number of other organizations. A Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, he is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo, chairman of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP), the Council for Secular Humanism, and Prometheus Books. He is editor-in-chief of Free Inquiry. He is the author or editor of over forty five books, including the recent Science and Religion: Are They Compatible. Throughout the last almost 40 years, Paul has been a...
2006-09-0930 minPoint of InquiryPaul Kurtz - World War and World ReligionsPaul Kurtz is founder and chair of the Center for Inquiry and a number of other organizations. A Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, he is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo, chairman of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP), the Council for Secular Humanism, and Prometheus Books. He is editor-in-chief of Free Inquiry. He is the author or editor of over forty five books, including the recent Science and Religion: Are They Compatible. Throughout the last almost 40 years, Paul has been a...
2006-09-0930 min