Douglas Hofstadter

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author cognitive scientist human professor science writer

Douglas Hofstadter is an American cognitive scientist and author best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning book "Gödel, Escher, Bach," which explores consciousness, self-reference, and the nature of mind through mathematics, art, and music.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	author → cognitive scientist → human → professor → science writer →
academicDegree	PhD in physics →
awardReceived	National Book Award for Science (US) → Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction →
awardReceivedFor	Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid →
birthDate	1945-02-15 →
birthPlace	New York → New York City → United States →
coAuthor	Daniel C. Dennett →
coAuthoredWork	The Mind’s I →
educatedAt	Stanford University → University of Oregon →
employer	Indiana University Bloomington →
familyName	Hofstadter →
fieldOfWork	artificial intelligence → cognitive science → comparative literature → consciousness studies → mathematical logic → philosophy of mind →
genre	essay → non-fiction → popular science →
givenName	Douglas →
hasResearchCenter	Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition →
influenced	popular understanding of cognitive science →
influencedBy	Alan Turing → Johann Sebastian Bach → Kurt Gödel → M. C. Escher →
knownFor	Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid → popularization of concepts in cognitive science → work on self-reference and strange loops →
languageSpoken	English →
mainInterest	analogy-making → consciousness → creativity → formal systems → self-reference →
name	Douglas Hofstadter →
nationality	American →
notableActivity	translation of poetry → writing on machine translation and AI →
notableWork	Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid → I Am a Strange Loop → Le Ton beau de Marot → Metamagical Themas → The Mind’s I →
occupation	author → cognitive scientist → translator → university professor →
positionHeld	College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor → Director of the Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition →
publicationDateOfWork	Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (1979) →
researchFocus	computer simulations of thinking → models of analogy-making in cognition →
residence	Bloomington, Indiana →
themeOfWork	nature of mind → self and identity → strange loops and recursion in cognition →
workInstitution	Indiana University Cognitive Science Program → Indiana University Department of Comparative Literature →

Referenced by (3)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Gödel, Escher, Bach →	author
Martin Gardner →	influenced
Douglas Hofstadter →	name