Hofstadter, Douglas

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Author documents cited by Kairos documents

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• [2014]  Die Analogie: Das Herz des Denkens. Klett-Cotta, 2014 (Hofstadter, Douglas / Sander, Emmanuel)
• [2013]  Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking. Basic Books, 2013
• [2013]  L'Analogie. Coeur de la pensée. Editions Odile Jacob, 2013 (Hofstadter, Douglas / Sander, Emmanuel)
• [2012]  Surfaces and Essences: analogy as the fuel and fire of thinking. Basic Books, 2012 [summary] (Hofstadter, Douglas / Sander, Emmanuel)
• [2011]  Surfaces and Essences: analogy as the fuel and fire of thinking. Basic Books, 2011 (Hofstadter, Douglas / Sander, Emmanuel)
• [2007]  I Am a Strange Loop. Basic Books, 2007
• [2006]  What Is It Like to Be a Strange Loop. In: Uriah Kriegel and Kenneth Williford (Eds).Self-Representational Approaches to Consciousness. MIT Press, 2006, pp. 465-516
• [2001]  Analogy as the Core of Cognition. In: Dedre Gentner, et al. (Eds.), The Analogical Mind: Perspectives from Cognitive Science, 2001
• [1999]  Gödel Escher Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid. Basic Books, 1999
• [1999]  Analogy as the Core of Cognition. In: Advances in Analogy Research: Integration of Theory from the Cognitive, Computational and Neural Sciences, MIT Press, 1999
• [1996]  Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer models of the fundamental mechanisms of thought. Basic Books, 1996
• [1995]  The Unconscious Juggling of Conceptual Objects. In: Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies, 1995
• [1995]  Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies. Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1995
• [1985]  Metamagical Themas. Basic Books, 1985 [summary]
• [1980]  Gödel, Escher, Bach. Vintage Books, 1980
• [1979]  Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. Basic Books, 1979
• [1979]  Gödel, Escher, Bach; an eternal golden braid. Harvester Press, 1979
• [1979]  GÃödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid. Basic Books, 1979 [summary]

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