Douglas Hofstadter

ThinkersBorn 1945Cognitive scientist

Works

  • Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking, Basic Books (with Emmanuel Sander; first published in French, 2013), 2013

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An American cognitive scientist, author of Gödel, Escher, Bach. With Emmanuel Sander he argues that analogy making, the mapping of one situation onto another, is the core of concepts and of all thought.

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