Vérité romanesque et fictions scientifiques

Philip K. Dick chez les criminologues

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ID6168971
AuthorsJulien Larregue (0000-0003-4319-1129), William Wannyn (0000-0002-4072-8448), Laurent Dartigues (0000-0002-8594-2755, Triangle : Action, Discours, Pensée politique et économique)
Year2019
Volume13
Issue13
Pages135-153
Publication date2019-12-12
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocio (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2266-3134 • E-ISSN: 2425-2158
PublisherOpenEdition (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4000/socio.7819
OpenAlexW2997446685
LanguageFR
References cited31

This paper investigates scientists’ conceptual borrowings from science fiction through the case of Philip K. Dick’s The Minority Report. In this short story, K. Dick depicts New York City as a crime-free society, thanks to the work of a police division, Precrime, whose function is to arrest criminals-to-be before they actually commit any crime. This writing has spurred academics’ attention, including criminologists and neuroscientists. While some of them propose a utopian reading of K. Dick’s ideas, other accentuate its dystopian dimension, depending on whether they are proponents or critics of the use of predictive methods in the criminal justice system. Moreover, we show that while critics tend to inscribe The Minority Report into a regime of truth that tells something about the current state of our societies, proponents tend to elaborate futuristic visions that come to complement and extend Philip K. Dick’s

Humanities · Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations · Philosophy · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment

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