How does the mind work in creating art? It is commonly assumed that the cognitions, emotions, and perceptions key to creativity can be sufficiently explained by events discoverable within the artist's head. This internalist explanatory bias is misleading and simplistic: in artistic work, creative mentation hinges on intimate networks of bodily, material, and socio-cultural factors. Creative mentation should thus be investigated as a situated phenomenon: as fundamentally dependent on the environments where it occurs. Adopting this view, the project will deliver a new conceptual framework which, compared to existing accounts, gives a much more truthful grasp of the creative mind. This is significant, for as long as the situatedness of creative mentation is overlooked, not only will our understanding of creativity fall short but our overall conception of what minds are and how they function will also remain misguided. For more, see: www.jyu.fi/hytk/fi/laitokset/yfi/en/staff/saarinen-jussi

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