Radu J Bogdan: 2 books
Mindvaults
Sociocultural Grounds for Pretending and Imagining
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
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...
Grounds for Cognition
How Goal-guided Behavior Shapes the Mind
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Q: Why do organisms need cognition?
A: To get information about their environments.
Q: Why such information?
A: Because organisms need to guide their behaviors to goals.
Q: Why guidance?
A: Because it leads to goal satisfaction.
Q: Why goals?
Cognition...