We begin with Walpole's less known definition of serendipity as “accidental sagacity”.
Encouraged by its implication that wisdom might be stumbled upon, we explore it by …

Over the last twenty years, archaeologists have used various process-oriented modes of
enquiry to undermine the belief that humans are special. Barad (2007) developed Bohr's …

For enactivists and pragmatists alike, sense-making is a systemic process of bringing the
organism and environment into reciprocity. Steiner distinguishes enactivism from …

Meta-reasoningrefers to themetacognitive processes thatmonitorandcontrolongoingthinking,
reasoning and problem-solving. These monitoring processes are usually experienced as …

Developmental psychology has a rich legacy of contributions challenging mainstream,
Cartesian-rooted perspectives of cognition. Indeed, pioneering figures within the field …

This unique book explores how the conceptual framework of science and technology studies
can be applied to creativity and problem-solving research, drawing from and building on the …

The thesis explores the phenomenology of creative cognition from the viewpoint of a
contemporary ceramic workshop. Over five chapters, six clay sculptural projects track the …

It is often said that poor workers blame their tools, the irony being that mistakes do not arise
from inanimate objects but from the clumsiness of their users. The converse (that good …

The aim of this chapter is fourfold. First, it introduces an artistic mode of enquiry to a
cognitive archaeology readership. Called clayful phenomenology, the method depends …

There is a view of archaeology promoted by the Oxford historian and philosopher Robin G.
Collingwood (1889–1943), who argued that knowing the past means re-enacting it. This …