The Flame of Knowledge

Utilizing critical realism, a broad philosophical and epistemological approach to knowledge, information, and culture that avoids the extremes of both modern positivism and postmodern skepticism, this book constructs a new narrative framework for debates over access to information. Author David Opderbeck critiques both predominant schools of IP scholarship, and shows how this new ethical paradigm can contribute to the ongoing discussion of issues including network neutrality, internet governance, cybersecurity, and the relationship between trade secret and patent law.

David Opderbeck is Associate Professor of Law and the Director of the Gibbons Institute of Law, Science and Technology at the Seton Hall University School of Law.