David Koepsell
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| Born | 1969 New York, USA |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Author, teacher, attorney |
David R. Koepsell (born 1969) is an American author, philosopher, attorney, and educator whose recent research focuses on how ethics and public policy deal with emerging science and technology. His background is diverse: he has been a practicing attorney, been employed as an ontologist, been a university professor and has lectured worldwide. He is currently a Visiting Professor of Research Ethics at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Director of Research and Strategic Initiatives at Comisión Nacional de Bioética (CONBIOETICA) Mexico, an adjunct Professor at University at Buffalo and a Senior Fellow and Education Director of the Center for Inquiry - Transnational, based in Amherst, NY.
Koepsell earned his PhD in philosophy (1997) as well as his doctorate in law (1995) from the University at Buffalo, where he studied with Barry Smith and currently serves as an adjunct Professor in the Department of Learning and Instruction. He has lectured worldwide on issues ranging from civil rights, philosophy, science, ontology, intellectual property theory, society, and religion. Koepsell was appointed Assistant Professor of Philosophy at TU Delft in September 2008 and was promoted to Associate Professor in September 2013. He is an associate editor of Free Inquiry magazine. He is the co-founder, with Edward Summer, of Carefully Considered Productions, an educational media not-for-profit corporation. Koepsell also serves on the Advisory Board of the Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom.
In stark contrast to the work of Michael R. Heim, who has promoted a Platonic dualism in his discussions of cyberspace and virtual reality, Koepsell has argued for a Searlean realism about all expression. Cyberspatial entities are expressions of the same type as any other intentionally produced, man-made object. Koepsell's work uses 'legal ontology' and common sense ontology to examine social objects. In the process, Koepsell criticizes the distinction between patentable and copyrightable objects as artificial, and argues for an open source approach to all intellectual property.
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