David Koepsell - Podcast Details

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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...2025-02-191h 33

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 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-koepsell/support 2024-09-2447 min

CinePhilsCinePhils, 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. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-koepsell/support 2024-05-2055 min

CinePhilsCinephile, 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. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-koepsell/support 2024-02-221h 13

CinePhilsCinePhils, 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. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-koepsell/support 2024-02-131h 09

CinePhilsCinePhils, 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. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-koepsell/support 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... ••• 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 min

CinePhilsCinePhils, 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. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-koepsell/support 2023-10-301h 14

CinePhilsCinePhils, 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. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-koepsell/support 2023-10-061h 16

CinePhilsCinePhils, 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. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-koepsell/support 2023-09-221h 26

CinePhilsCinePhils, 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. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-koepsell/support 2023-09-131h 07

CinePhilsCinePhils, 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. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-koepsell/support 2023-08-111h 04

CinePhilsCinePhils, 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. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-koepsell/support 2023-07-0657 min

CinePhilsCinePhils, 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. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-koepsell/support 2023-06-131h 03

CinePhilsCinePhils, 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. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-koepsell/support 2023-05-271h 01

CinePhilsCinePhils, 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. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-koepsell/support 2023-05-151h 04

CinePhilsCinePhils, 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. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-koepsell/support 2023-05-031h 04

Radio 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 min

CinePhilsCinePhils, 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? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-koepsell/support 2023-04-181h 10

CinePhilsCinePhils, 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. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-koepsell/support 2023-04-111h 04

CinePhilsCinePhils, 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. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-koepsell/support 2023-04-041h 03

CinePhilsCinePhils, 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. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-koepsell/support 2023-03-251h 08

CinePhilsCinePhils, 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. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-koepsell/support 2023-03-141h 05

CinePhilsCinePhils, 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. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-koepsell/support 2023-03-071h 06

CinePhilsCinePhils, 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. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-koepsell/support 2023-02-281h 12

Radio 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. --- http://davidkoepsell.com/ --- Interview conducted by Nikolai Taras and Marco Rixecker https://www.amazon.com/author/marcorixecker --- Radio Aula Mundi, February 2023 At the moment, Radio Aula Mundi is an evolving podcast station where no language and all languages are spoken… It’s...2023-02-2703 min

CinePhilsCinePhils, 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? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-koepsell/support 2023-02-211h 03

CinePhilsCinePhils, 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. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-koepsell/support 2023-02-141h 07

CinePhilsCinePhils, 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. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-koepsell/support 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. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-koepsell/support 2023-01-3158 min

CinePhilsCinePhils, 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! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-koepsell/support 2023-01-241h 04

CinePhilsCinePhils Take 3: Contempt, or “And Godard created Cinema”David and Rob discuss Jean-Luc Godard’s most commercial movie: Contempt (1963) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-koepsell/support 2023-01-171h 00

CinePhilsCinePhils, 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. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-koepsell/support 2023-01-101h 10

CinePhilsCinePhils 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. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-koepsell/support 2023-01-041h 01

CinePhilsCinePhils (Trailer)--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-koepsell/support 2023-01-0400 min

Science Time 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 technology at the University of Amsterdam and...2022-11-1040 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 min

Kinsella 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 01

Kinsella 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.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 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app 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 05

Kinsella 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. see als...2018-02-0705 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

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 min

Point 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 min

Point 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