Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies

Readers of earlier works by Douglas Hofstadter will find this book a natural extension of his style and his ideas about creativity and analogy; in addition, psychologists, philosophers, and artificial-intelligence researchers will find in this elaborate web of ingenious ideas a deep and challenging new view of mind.

Author: Douglas R. Hofstadter
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 03/22/1996
Pages: 528
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.09lbs
Size: 9.85h x 7.28w x 1.19d
ISBN13: 9780465024759
ISBN10: 0465024750
BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
- Philosophy | Mind & Body
- Computers | General

About the Author
Douglas Hofstadter is College of Arts and Sciences Professor of Cognitive Science and Computer Science at Indiana University, Bloomington. His other books include the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid; Metamagical Themas; The Mind's I; Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies; Le Ton beau de Marot; and Surfaces and Essences, with Emmanuel Sander. He lives in Bloomington, Indiana.