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Douglas R. Hofstadter

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Douglas R. Hofstadter (born 1945) is an American cognitive scientist, physicist, writer, and translator. He is a distinguished professor of cognitive science and comparative literature at Indiana University Bloomington, where he directed the Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition. His work explores consciousness, the sense of self, analogy-making, creativity, artificial intelligence, literary translation, mathematics, and visual ambiguity. His books include the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gödel, Escher, Bach, Metamagical Themas, Le Ton beau de Marot, I Am a Strange Loop, Surfaces and Essences, and Ambigrammia.

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Cover of Ambigrammia: Between Creation and Discovery

Ambigrammia: Between Creation and Discovery

graphic-nonfiction · First published 2025

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Cover of Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

The broadest introduction to Hofstadter's central interests in self-reference, cognition, mathematics, music, and art.

Cover of I Am a Strange Loop

I Am a Strange Loop

A focused and accessible introduction to his account of consciousness and the self.

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The Grace A. Tanner Lecture in Human Values

A series of published lectures on human values, including Hofstadter's lecture on Clément Marot and literary translation.

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  1. 1 Cover of Rhapsody on a Theme by Clement Marot
    Rhapsody on a Theme by Clement Marot

    Book 16 · lecture-pamphlet · 1996

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Novels (2)
  1. Ambigrammi: un microcosmo ideale per lo studio della creatività

    graphic-nonfiction · 1987

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  2. Cover of Ambigrammia: Between Creation and Discovery
    Ambigrammia: Between Creation and Discovery

    graphic-nonfiction · 2025

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Essays and speeches (2)
  1. Cover of Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern
    Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern

    essay-collection · 1985

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  2. Translator, Trader: An Essay on the Pleasantly Pervasive Paradoxes of Translation

    essay · 2009

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Edited works (1)
  1. Cover of The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul
    The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul

    edited-collection · 1981

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Other (5)
  1. Cover of Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
    Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

    book · 1979

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  2. Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought

    book · 1995

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  3. Cover of Le Ton beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language
    Le Ton beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language

    book · 1997

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  4. Cover of I Am a Strange Loop
    I Am a Strange Loop

    book · 2007

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  5. Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking

    book · 2013

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