Mindvaults. Sociocultural Grounds for Pretending and Imaginining

In his latest book, Radu J. Bogdan embarks on a quest as ambitious as one can imagine in the sciences of the mind: to explain the developmental (as well as evolutionary) path leading to human intellect, defined as “high-level mental faculties involved in reasoning, deliberate planning, thoughtful communication, reflective problem solving and decision making, art creation, technological innovation and scientific theorizing” (p. 218). Although not without some problems and shortcomings – and thus not quite successful at living up to its ambitious premise – this interesting work tackles its problems from an original theoretical perspective.