The Extended Theory of Cognitive Creativity

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

6. Aesthetics Approaches

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 133-133

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   2. A Bodily Take on Aesthetics: Performativity and Embodied Simulation

      • Vittorio Gallese

      Pages 135-149

   3. Imagination, Performativity, Technics. A (Post)Kantian Approach

      • Pietro Montani

      Pages 151-161

   4. Implications of Creativity: A New Experiential Paradigm for an Aesthetics of the Extended Mind?

      • Giovanni Matteucci

      Pages 163-181

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

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.

• Performativity theory
• Creative philosophy of language and mind
• A radical enactivist approach to social cognition
• Oral poetry as written performance
• Neural Representations in Context

• 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

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; 

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