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Douglas Hofstadter: Indiana University
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Douglas Hofstadter is College of Arts and Sciences Professor of Cognitive Science at Indiana University, where he directs the Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition. His book "Gödel, Escher, Bach" won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction. Aside from his research and writings in cognitive science and philosophy of mind, Hofstadter has contributed to physics and mathematics, has composed music and visual art, has done poetry translation, and has written on sexism. The fact that he studies human creativity is appropriate, as he is himself a creator in diverse fields. Hofstadter describes himself as "perpetually in search of beauty".
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Although Douglas Hofstadter is nominally associated with a few departments at Indiana University, he is actually left pretty much alone to pursue his multifarious interests, which he does with alacrity, celerity, vim, vigor, and vitality. Hofstadter’s own way of characterizing his personal style and his personal goals runs as follows: “perpetually in search of beauty.”
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Douglas R. Hofstadter, Pulitzer Prize winner and professor of cognitive science and computer science at Indiana University, shows an image of French poet Clement Marot during his Olin Lecture in Statler Auditorium on April 24. Hofstadter used a variety of translations of a Marot poem, "A Une Damoiselle Malade" (To a Sick Damsel), to illustrate his thesis that the translation of poetry requires creativity. Denise Weldon/University Photography
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Mathematician and philosopher Douglas R. Hofstadter (1945-) is probably best known for his 1980 Pulitzer Prize-winning book Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid. He is currently (2001) a professor of cognitive science and computer science at the Univeristy of Indiana.
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