Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies

Computer Models Of The Fundamental Mechanisms Of Thought

Contributors

By Douglas R. Hofstadter

Formats and Prices

On Sale
Mar 22, 1996
Page Count
528 pages
Publisher
Basic Books
ISBN-13
9780465024759

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$25.99

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$33.99 CAD

Format

Trade Paperback

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Trade Paperback $25.99 $33.99 CAD

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.

Douglas R. Hofstadter

About the Author

Douglas R. Hofstadter is College of Arts and Sciences Professor of Cognitive Science and Computer Science at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he also directs the Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition. He is the author or co-author of nine books, including I Am a Strange Loop and Surfaces and Essences, and has contributed to ten more. He lives in Bloomington.

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