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Metamagical Themas

Questing For The Essence Of Mind And Pattern

Contributors

By Douglas R. Hofstadter

Formats and Prices

On Sale
Apr 5, 1996
Page Count
880 pages
Publisher
Basic Books
ISBN-13
9780465045662

Price

$34.99

Price

$43.99 CAD

Format

Format:

  1. Trade Paperback $34.99 $43.99 CAD
  2. ebook $23.99 $30.99 CAD

Hofstadter’s collection of quirky essays is unified by its primary concern: to examine the way people perceive and think.

Douglas R. Hofstadter

About the Author

Douglas Hofstadter is Distinguished College of Arts and Sciences Professor of Cognitive Science and Comparative Literature at Indiana University. His previous books include Gö, Escher, Bach (which won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1980) and Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies.

Emmanuel Sander is Professor of Cognitive and Developmental Psychology at the University of Paris (Saint-Denis), specializing in the study of analogy-making and categorization and their connections to education. Among his previous works is the book Analogy, from the Naï to the Creative.

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