Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking

Hofstadter, Douglas R,Sander, Emmanuel

ISBN 10: 0465018475 / ISBN 13: 9780465018475

Verlag: Basic Books, 2013

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In a major new work from the author of Gödel, Escher, Bach and I Am a Strange Loop, two leading scholars argue that analogy is the basis for all human thoughts

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Douglas R. Hofstadter is College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science and Comparative Literature at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gödel, Escher, Bach; Metamagical Themas; Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies; I Am a Strange Loop; “Translator, Trader”; and most recently, Ambigrammia: Between Creation and Discovery.  He translated Alexander Pushkin’s novel-in-verse Eugene Onegin from Russian verse into English verse, and has also translated books from several other languages into English.   
 
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 Naïve to the Creative.

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Titel: Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel ...
Verlag: Basic Books
Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
Einband: hardcover
Zustand: Very Good