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The Extended Theory of Cognitive Creativity

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Performativity

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Editors:
  1. Antonino Pennisi

    1. Department of Cognitive Science, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

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  2. Alessandra Falzone

    1. Department of Cognitive Science, Psychology, Education and Cultural Studies, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

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  • Is the only book that collects a complete foundational proposal of the extended theory of performativity
  • Includes interdisciplinary contributions by the most distinguished scholars in the field
  • Proposes a view of performativity as a constituent component of cognitive processes

Part of the book series: Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology (PEPRPHPS, volume 23)

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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Presentation

    • Antonino Pennisi, Alessandra Falzone
    Pages 1-5

  3. General Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
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    2. Dimensions of the Bodily Creativity. For an Extended Theory of Performativity

      • Antonino Pennisi
      Pages 9-40

  4. Embodied, Enactivist, Philosophical Approaches

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 41-41
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    2. Mindful Performance

      • Shaun Gallagher
      Pages 43-58

    3. A Radical Enactivist Approach to Social Cognition

      • Claudio Paolucci
      Pages 59-74

    4. On the Nature of Bodies. With the Help of Aristotle

      • Franco Lo Piparo
      Pages 75-85

  5. Extended Theory Approaches

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-87
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    2. Collective Action in the Wild

      • Mathew D. McCubbins, Mark Turner
      Pages 89-102

    3. Moderate Mindreading Priority

      • Pietro Perconti
      Pages 103-113

    4. Performativity and the Ideological Construction of the Self. The Age of Narcissism and (Possibly) Beyond

      • Marco Mazzone
      Pages 115-131

  7. Naturalistic and Evolutionary Approaches

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 183-183
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    2. Biological Individuality – A Complex Pattern of Distributed Uniqueness

      • Alessandro Minelli
      Pages 185-197

    3. Aspects of the Ongoing Debate on Animal Communication. (Zoo)semiotics and Cognitive Ethology

      • Stefano Gensini
      Pages 199-216

    4. Natural Performativity: How to Do Things with Body Constraints

      • Alessandra Falzone
      Pages 217-227
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About this book

This edited volume focuses on the hypothesis that performativity is not a property confined to certain specific human skills, or to certain specific acts of language, nor an accidental enrichment due to creative intelligence. Instead, the executive and motor component of cognitive behavior should be considered an intrinsic part of the physiological functioning of the mind, and as endowed with self-generative power. Performativity, in this theoretical context, can be defined as a constituent component of cognitive processes. The material action allowing us to interact with reality is both the means by which the subject knows the surrounding world and one through which he experiments with the possibilities of his body. This proposal is rooted in models now widely accepted in the philosophy of mind and language; in fact, it focuses on a space of awareness that is not in the individual, or outside it, but is determined by the species-specific ways in which the body acts on the world. Thistheoretical hypothesis will be pursued through the latest interdisciplinary methodology typical of cognitive science, that coincide with the five sections in which the book is organized: Embodied, enactivist, philosophical approaches; Aesthetics approaches; Naturalistic and evolutionary approaches; Neuroscientific approaches; Linguistics approaches. This book is intended for: linguists, philosophers, psychologists, cognitive scientists, scholars of art and aesthetics, performing artists, researchers in embodied cognition, especially enactivists and students of the extended mind.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Cognitive Science, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

    Antonino Pennisi

  • Department of Cognitive Science, Psychology, Education and Cultural Studies, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

    Alessandra Falzone

About the editors

Antonino Pennisi and Alessandra Falzone are both full professors of Philosophy of Language at the Department of Cognitive Sciences of the University of Messina. In different years they have coordinated the PhD of “Cognitive Sciences” of the same University. Among their books: Darwinian Biolinguistics: Theory and History of a naturalistic philosophy of language and pragmatics (Springer, Cham, 2016); Il prezzo del linguaggio. Evoluzione ed estinzione nelle scienze cognitive (Il Mulino, Bologna, 2010); Le scienze della natura e la natura del linguaggio umano (Mucchi, Modena, 2012). Among their most recent essays: Performative dimensions in cognitive sciences and Performativity and evolution, “RSL. Italian Journal of Cognitive Sciences”, 1/2018; Cognitive Pragmatics and Evolutionism, in A. Capone, M. Carapezza, F. Lo Piparo (eds.), Further Advances in Pragmatics and philosophy (Springer, Cham, 2019) ; Continuità strutturale e discontinuità cognitiva nel linguaggio articolato: modelli teorici e bilanci empirici, “Sistemi Intelligenti”, I/2019; 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Extended Theory of Cognitive Creativity

  • Book Subtitle: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Performativity

  • Editors: Antonino Pennisi, Alessandra Falzone

  • Series Title: Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22090-7

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-22089-1Published: 05 October 2019

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-22092-1Published: 05 October 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-22090-7Published: 25 September 2019

  • Series ISSN: 2214-3807

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-3815

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 358

  • Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Pragmatics, Cognitive Linguistics, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind

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