The Extended Theory of Cognitive Creativity

Introduction.- Dimensions of the bodily creativity. For an extended theory of performativity;   Antonio Pennisi.- Part I: Embodied, enactivist, philosophical approaches.- Mindful performance; Shaun Gallagher.- A radical enactivist approach to social cognition; Claudio Paolucci.- On the nature of bodies. With the help of Aristotle; Franco Lo Piparo.- The silent work of speech. On an Enactive grammar's insight; Francesco La Mantia.- Part II: Extended theory approaches.- Collective Action in the Wild; Mathew D. McCubbins, Mark Turner.- Moderate mindreading priority; Pietro Perconti.- Performativity and the Spread Mind: The Case of Color Afterimages; Riccardo Manzotti.- Performativity and the ideological construction of the self. The age of narcissism and (possibly) beyond; Marco Mazzone.- Part III: Aesthetics approaches.- A bodily take on Aesthetics: Performativity and Embodied Simulation; Vittorio Gallese.- Imagination, Performativity, Technics. A (Post)Kantian Approach; PietroMontani.- Implications of Creativity: A New Experiential Paradigm for an Aesthetics of the Extended Mind? Giovanni Matteucci.- A Short Survey on Oral Poetry as Ritual Performance. The Sicilian Cunto as Case Study; Dario Tomasello.- Part IV: Naturalistic and evolutionary approaches.- Biological individuality - a complex pattern of distributed uniqueness; Alessandro Minelli.- Aspects of the debate on animal communication. Amongst (zoo) semiotic and cognitive ethology; Stefano Gensini.- Language evolution: from function to performativity; Alessandra Falzone.- The contribution of biolinguistics to the debate of performativity; Laura Giallongo.- Media, ecologies and performance within socio-political dynamics. A sociological perspective; Rolando Marini.- Part V: Neuroscientific approaches.- It doesn't seem_it, but it is. a neurofilmological approach to the subjective experience of moving-image time; Ruggero Eugeni, Stefania Balzarotti, Federica Cavaletti, Adriano D'Aloia.-

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;