더글러스 호프스태터

《괴델, 에셔, 바흐: 영원한 황금 노끈》은 더글러스 호프스태터가 쓴 퓰리처상 수상작이다. 논리학자인 쿠르트 괴델, 미술가인 M. C. 에셔, 작곡가인 요한 제바스티안 바흐를 소재로 하고 있다. 한국어로는 제주대학교 독일학과 교수인 박여성의 번역으로 까치글방에서 《괴델 에셔 바흐》란 제목으로 출판되어 …

Metamagical Themas is an eclectic collection of articles that Douglas Hofstadter wrote for the popular science magazine Scientific American during the early 1980s. The anthology was published in 1985 by Basic Books. The volume is substantial in size and contains extensive notes concerning responses to the articles and …

One of our greatest philosophers and scientists of the mind asks, where does the self come from--and how our selves can exist in the minds of others. Can thought arise out of matter? Can self, soul, consciousness, "I" arise out of mere matter? If it cannot, then how can you or I be here? I Am a Strange Loop argues …

Le Ton beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language, published by Basic Books in 1997, is a book by Douglas Hofstadter in which he explores the meaning, strengths, failings, and beauty of translation. The book is a long and detailed examination of one short translation of a minor French poem, and through that an …

Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought is a 1995 book by Douglas Hofstadter and other members of the Fluid Analogies Research Group exploring the mechanisms of intelligence through computer modeling. It contends that the notions of analogy and fluidity are …