Douglas Hofstadter

From Philosopedia

Hofstadter, Douglas (15 February 1945 - )

Hofstadter, the son of Nancy Givan and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Robert Hofstadter, grew up on the campus of Stanford University, where his father was a professor. He has two sisters, Laura and Mary. With his wife Carol Ann Brush (who died of a brain tumor) he has a son, Danny, and a daughter, Monica.

Hofstadter, for his Bachelor's degree, graduated with a Distinction in Mathematics from Stanford in 1965 and received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Oregon in 1975.

An outspoken atheist and a professor of cognitive science and computer science at Indiana University in Bloomington, Hofstadter is author of the following:

Godel, Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (1979) - won a Pulitzer Prize

Minds I (with Daniel C. Dennett, 1981)

Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern (1985)

Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies (1995) - was the first book ever sold on Amazon

Le Ton Beau De Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language (1997)

I am a Strange Loop (2007)