Vol 5.2, Fall 2021

Edited by

Joseph Carroll
University of Missouri, St. Louis

Mathias Clasen
Aarhus University

Emelie Jonsson
University of Gothenburg

Symposium on Adaptive Imagination

Target Article

Adaptive Imagination: Toward a Mythopoetic Cognitive Science

Stephen Asma

Responses to Target Article

The Problem of Equating Content with Process in the Mythopoetic Model

Anna Abraham

Mythopoetic Cognition Is a Form of Autobiographical Simulation

Donna Rose Addis

Neurocognitive and Evolutionary Perspective on Adaptive Imagination

Fatima M. Felisberti, Robert J. King

The Perils of MC, Lost in the Forest of DM

Geoffrey Galt Harpham

Appetence, Key Stimuli, and Core Affects: Foundational Elements of Human Behavior and Mind

Henrik Høgh-Olesen

Collective, Joint, and Shared Imagination?

Jeppe Sinding Jensen

Narrative in Mind

Keith Oatley

The Importance of Narrative and Intuitive Thought in Navigating Our Realities

Valerie van Mulukom, Micia de Wet

Evolution of Imagination: From Completely Involuntary to Fully Voluntary

Andrey Vyshedskiy

Asma and Shakespeare on Dual Cognition

Robert N. Watson

Rejoinder

The Strangest Sort of Map: Reply to Commentaries

Stephen Asma

Articles

Dad Jokes and the Deep Roots of Fatherly Teasing

Marc Hye-Knudsen

Review Essays

Angus Fletcher’s Other Literary Darwinism

Joseph Carroll

Homo paedens? Did Kids Invent the Human Species?

Melvin Konner

Book Reviews

Brett Cooke. Tolstoy’s Family Prototypes in War and Peace

Reviewed by Tom Dolack

Jeremy DeSilva. A Most Interesting Problem: What Darwin’s Descent of Man Got Wrong and Right about Human Evolution

Reviewed by Bernard Wood

Felipe Fernández-Armesto. Out of Our Minds: What We Think and How We Came to Think It.

Reviewed by Gregory Hanlon

Paul van Helvert and John van Wyhe. Darwin: A Companion.

Reviewed by Tim M. Berra

Jürgen Renn. The Evolution of Knowledge: Rethinking Science for the Anthropocene.

Reviewed by Thomas J. H. Morgan

Article Reviews

Audiovisual Media

Jens Kjeldgaard-Christiansen

Cultural Theory

Oleg Sobchuk

Life Narratives

Henry R. Cowan

Literature

Mads Larsen

Music

Nicholas Bannan

Paleoaesthetics

Dahlia W. Zaidel

Popular Culture

Catherine Salmon, Rebecca L. Burch