Author

Books by Douglas Hofstadter

Douglas Hofstadter is a cognitive scientist and professor of comparative literature and cognitive science at Indiana University. He won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for Gödel, Escher, Bach in 1980. His other books include The Mind's I (co-edited with Daniel Dennett), Metamagical Themas, Le Ton beau de Marot (an exploration of translation and creativity), and I Am a Strange Loop, which revisits the central themes of GEB with more focus on consciousness and the self. He is known for combining rigorous scientific thinking with playfulness, wordplay, and deep engagement with music and art.