Argument
- Speculative Fiction and Knowledge — Why speculative fiction seems to be of little cognitive value
- Framing How Speculative Fiction Can Be Cognitively Valuable For Understanding Religion — Why the situation is different for understanding religion
- Agency and Cognitive Value in “The Paper Menagerie” — How character proactivity in speculative fiction helps us understand religion
- How Wonder in Speculative Fiction Helps Us Understand Religion — Why the the “genre of wonder” is cognitively valuable
- The Cognitive Value of Theological Fiction: C. S. Lewis’s The Great Divorce — How speculative fiction helps us answer theological questions
Helpful and Unhelpful Portrayals of Religion