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Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 22 March 2013
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9744.003.0011
EISBN: 9780262314336
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 22 March 2013
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9744.003.0012
EISBN: 9780262314336
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 22 March 2013
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9744.003.0013
EISBN: 9780262314336
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 22 March 2013
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9744.003.0014
EISBN: 9780262314336
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 22 March 2013
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9744.003.0015
EISBN: 9780262314336
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 22 March 2013
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9744.003.0016
EISBN: 9780262314336
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 22 March 2013
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9744.003.0017
EISBN: 9780262314336
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 22 March 2013
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9744.003.0018
EISBN: 9780262314336
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 22 March 2013
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9744.001.0001
EISBN: 9780262314336
An argument that the uniquely human capacities of pretending and imagining develop in response to sociocultural and sociopolitical pressures in childhood. The human mind has the capacity to vault over the realm of current perception, motivation, emotion, and action, to leap—consciously and deliberately—to past or future, possible or impossible, abstract or concrete scenarios and situations. In this book, Radu Bogdan examines the roots of this uniquely human ability, which he terms "mindvaulting." He focuses particularly on the capacities of pretending and imagining, which he identifies as the first forms of mindvaulting to develop in childhood. Pretending and imagining, Bogdan argues, are crucial steps on the ontogenetic staircase to the intellect. Bogdan finds that pretending and then imagining develop from a variety of sources for reasons that are specific and unique to human childhood. He argues that these capacities arise as responses to sociocultural and sociopolitical pressures that emerge at different stages of childhood. Bogdan argues that some of the properties of mindvaulting—including domain versatility and nonmodularity—resist standard evolutionary explanations. To resolve this puzzle, Bogdan reorients the evolutionary analysis toward human ontogeny, construed as a genuine space of evolution with specific pressures and adaptive responses. Bogdan finds that pretending is an ontogenetic response to sociocultural challenges in early childhood, a pre-adaptation for imagining; after age four, the adaptive response to cooperative and competitive sociopolitical pressures is a competence for mental strategizing that morphs into imagining.
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 22 March 2013
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9744.003.0001
EISBN: 9780262314336
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 22 March 2013
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9744.003.0002
EISBN: 9780262314336
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 22 March 2013
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9744.003.0003
EISBN: 9780262314336
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 22 March 2013
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9744.003.0004
EISBN: 9780262314336
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 22 March 2013
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9744.003.0005
EISBN: 9780262314336
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 22 March 2013
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9744.003.0006
EISBN: 9780262314336
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 22 March 2013
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9744.003.0007
EISBN: 9780262314336
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 22 March 2013
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9744.003.0008
EISBN: 9780262314336
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 22 March 2013
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9744.003.0009
EISBN: 9780262314336
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 22 March 2013
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9744.003.0010
EISBN: 9780262314336
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 03 September 2010
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/7862.003.0001
EISBN: 9780262289214