Knowledge, power, and know-how

• Autores: Philippe Coppens
• Localización: Revue internationale de droit économique, ISSN 1010-8831, Vol 34, Nº. 4, 2020, págs. 477-482
• Idioma: francés
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  • This paper is about the foundations of intellectual property law and the conditions of its emergence. These conditions rest on the idea of private human knowledge being something that one subject can claim to own, and which represents economic power over others. I then aim to show how far this conception is from contemporary epistemology based on the idea of an intersubjective building of knowledge and of its relation to truth. Finally, I indicate how the enterprise of knowing something is always linked to the concept of action. We cannot know without acting. In this sense, knowledge is know-how.