Judicial judgment put to the test of governance by numbers

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https://doi.org/10.1590/2965-1557.037.e202532657

Abstract

Governance by numbers is not one form of government among others: it is based on a statistical qualification very different from legal qualification. The judicial decision is based on legal qualification operations which refer to the indefinite play of interpretations. Statistical qualification is used to count and not to judge. What about the judicial judgment in these conditions? Kant distinguishes determining judgment and reflective judgment: determining judgment consists of applying a rule to a given case, reflective judgment consists of seeking a rule for a given case. But this duality is not absolute, every judgment has a reflective or interpretive dimension. Judicial judgment can never be reduced to the application of a rule to a given case. This is why the new place taken by artificial intelligence in the exercise of justice is highly problematic. Indeed, algorithmic or “predictive” justice tends to favor statistical probabilities at the expense of the specificity of each case and the individualization of decisions. In addition, the programmers who design the algorithms are free to introduce multiple biases. The question is therefore that of public control of the development of programs, of the algorithms themselves.

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Pierre Dardot , Université Paris Nanterre

Pierre Dardot é filósofo e pesquisador associado à Universidade de Paris Nanterre. É coautor com Christian Laval de La nouvelle raison du monde. Paris: La Découverte, 2009; Marx, prénom: Karl. Paris:  Gallimard, 2012; Commun. Paris: La Découverte, 2014; Dominer. Paris: La Découverte, 2020. Coautor com Haud Guéguen, Christian Laval et Pierre Sauvêtre de Le choix de la guerre civile. Montréal: Lux, 2021. É autor de La mémoire du futur. Montréal: Lux, 2023.

André Duarte, Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR)

Professor Titular do Departamento de Filosofia da UFPR desde 2018. Diretor da Agência UFPR Internacional entre 2017-2024; Bolsista de Produtividade em Pesquisa do CNPq modalidade 1-C; Professor convidado na Université de Lille em 2017; Pós-Doutorado pela Université de Paris VII com bolsa Capes (2011-2012); Pós-doutorado pela Universidade de Barcelona com bolsa Capes (2002-2003); Doutorado em Filosofia pela Universidade de São Paulo (1993-1997); Bolsa Sanduíche CNPq na New School for Social Research (NY, 1995-1997)

Published

2025-05-02

How to Cite

Dardot , P., & Duarte, A. (2025). Judicial judgment put to the test of governance by numbers. Revista De Filosofia Aurora, 37. https://doi.org/10.1590/2965-1557.037.e202532657

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