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- Like the scientific method, science fiction provides an approach to understanding the universe we live in. It provides the tools, tropes, and cognitive framework within which we can explore ideas and safely run thought-experiments where we cannot or ought not in real-world experiments.
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Oct 9, 2020 · A recent review found science fiction is increasingly used as source material for research with intentionally public relevance and consequences ( Menadue & Cheer, 2017 ).
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Aug 3, 2017 · Two characteristics of the use of science fiction in research became evident in the review: its role as a tool for advocacy and cultural insight and its effectiveness as an aid to learning and teaching.
- Christopher Benjamin Menadue, Karen Diane Cheer
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Aug 3, 2017 · Two characteristics of the use of science fiction in research became evident in the review: its role as a tool for advocacy and cultural insight and its effectiveness as an aid to learning...
Jan 10, 2024 · This article clarifies the role and value of three types of evidence used in empirical research – anecdotes derived from case studies or small samples of data, fictions (including both thought experiments and works of art such as novels and plays) and statistics. The conclusion is that all three have an important part to play.
Jan 18, 2023 · Science fiction often serves as an inspiration for real scientific research and developments. Sometimes, the language of fiction shapes our thinking and approach to scientific investigation.
Fiction as method exists within a continuum of arts-based methods ranging from those scholars who take aesthetic license with their work but primarily base their writing on accounts that are close to the experience; to scholars who fictionalize portions of a narrative ethnography (alter existing elements of a narrative for the purpose of ...
Feb 1, 2024 · Why is there a generic category of science fiction homogeneous enough to be identified and used by readers and researchers? Because all these works trigger specific cognitive mechanisms that are not as much stimulated by other fictions, such as intuitive physics and technological reasoning.
