Author

Books by Douglas Hofstadter & Daniel Dennett

Douglas Hofstadter is a cognitive scientist and American Pulitzer Prize-winning author best known for Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (1979). He has held positions at Indiana University, where he directs the Fluid Analogies Research Group, and has written extensively on creativity, translation, and analogy as core cognitive processes. Daniel Dennett was a philosopher at Tufts University and one of the foremost defenders of a materialist account of mind. His books include Consciousness Explained and Darwin's Dangerous Idea. Both thinkers have been central to debates about artificial intelligence and the philosophy of mind for over four decades.