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Philip K. Dick (1928 – 1982)
Nationality: American | Periods: American: 20th Century |
Science Fiction, Dealt with themes of identity and reality
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Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said
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Criticism about Philip K. Dick
- Philip K. Dick: Reason, Mind, and Being
- http://scribble.com/uwi/br/pkd-essay.html
- “…we can see that Philip K. Dick manages to reacquaint us with those forgotten aspects of ourselves that we have forgotten, and in a sense, create a human where a moment before there was only clay. Being is essential to empathy, and both are essential to being human. To stay human requires a sense of paranoia and creativity. Yet all these things temper and are tempered by our logical capabilities. We shift and alter in the continuum of humanness according to our context, yet to be human is a gift we who are so have earned.
- Contains: Criticism
- Author: Roger D. Cook
- Keywords: Science Fiction, Artificial Intelligence, Materialism, Dualism, Functionalism, Central State Identity Theory
Other sites about Philip K. Dick
- Philip K. Dick and Human Kindness
- http://www.spectacle.org/396/scifi/dick.html
- This essay examines three levels of reality in Dick’s novels: the “seen”, the “is”, and the “ought”.
- Contains: Commentary
- Author: Jonathan Blumen
- From: The Ethical Spectacle Mar 1997
- Keywords: Science Fiction, Ethics, Biographical Criticism
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Last Updated Nov 15, 2010