Richard Hofstadter has traced the sentimental attachment to the rural way of life, which he describes as " a kind of homage that Americans have paid to the fancied innocence of their origins.

( The term " ambigram " was invented by Hofstadter in 1984 and has since been taken up by many ambigrammists all over the world.

In particular, Hofstadter claims that our sense of having ( or being ) an " I " comes from the abstract pattern he terms a " strange loop ", which is an abstract cousin of such concrete phenomena as audio and video feedback, and which Hofstadter has defined as " a level-crossing feedback loop ".

Aside from Eugene Onegin, Hofstadter has translated many other poems ( always respecting their formal constraints ), and two other novels ( in prose ): La Chamade ( That Mad Ache ) by French writer Françoise Sagan, and La Scoperta dell ' Alba ( The Discovery of Dawn ) by Walter Veltroni, the then head of the Partito Democratico in Italy.

Hofstadter has said that he feels " uncomfortable with the nerd culture that centers on computers ".

Provoked by predictions of a technological singularity ( the hypothetical moment at which artificial intelligence will surpass human intelligence ), Hofstadter has both organized and participated in several public discussions of the topic.

Hofstadter has composed numerous pieces for piano, and a few for piano and voice.

As a consequence of his attitudes about consciousness and empathy, Hofstadter has been a vegetarian for roughly half his life.

Hofstadter has written, among many others, the following papers:

Hofstadter has also written over 50 papers that were published through the Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition.

Hofstadter has written forewords for or edited the following books:

In response to confusion over the book's theme, Hofstadter has emphasized that GEB is not about mathematics, art, and music but rather about how cognition and thinking emerge from well-hidden neurological mechanisms.

* Stanford University has an annual lecture series named after Hofstadter, the Robert Hofstadter Memorial Lectures, which consists of two lectures each year, one oriented toward the general public and the other oriented toward scientists.

Translation between frames of reference — languages, cultures, modes of expression, or indeed between one person's thoughts and another — becomes an element in many of the same concepts Hofstadter has addressed in prior works, such as reference and self-reference, structure and function, and artificial intelligence.

The article was originally published in 1974 in The Philosophical Review, and has been reprinted several times, including in The Mind's I ( edited by Daniel Dennett and Douglas Hofstadter ), Readings in the Philosophy of Psychology ( edited by Ned Block ), Nagel's Mortal Questions ( 1979 ), The Nature of Mind ( edited by David M. Rosenthal ), and Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings ( edited by David J. Chalmers ).

Since 2007 she has appeared in a number of episodes of the CBS TV series The Big Bang Theory as Leslie Winkle, a scientist friend of Leonard Hofstadter, who is played by Johnny Galecki, who had previously played Gilbert's love interest David Healy on Roseanne.

" Thus Hofstadter argued, " The application of depth psychology to politics, chancy though it is, has at least made us acutely aware that politics can be a projective arena for feelings and impulses that are only marginally related to the manifest issues.

* In " The Cooper-Hofstadter Polarization " episode of The Big Bang Theory, Leonard Hofstadter has a model of the bottle city of Kandor in his closet.

By the book's conclusion, Hofstadter has effectively done this.

Historian Richard Hofstadter has taken the view that the Populist and Agrarian movements were essentially right-wing and reactionary movements, left-wing economic issues notwithstanding.

Richard Hofstadter in 1966 claimed that opposition to conservatism has been common among intellectuals since about 1890.

While not publishing his harshest thoughts, Hofstadter said privately that Turner no longer was a useful guide to history, because he was too obsessed with the frontier and his ideas too often had " a pound of false-hood for every few ounces of truth ".

He even employed one, Mike Wallace, to collaborate with him on American Violence: A Documentary History ( 1970 ); about the book, Hofstadter student Eric Foner said that it " utterly contradicted the consensus vision of a nation placidly evolving without serious disagreements ".

Hofstadter is College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science and Comparative Literature at Indiana University in Bloomington, where he directs the Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition which consists of himself and his graduate students, forming the " Fluid Analogies Research Group " ( FARG ).

Hofstadter collects and studies cognitive errors ( largely, but not solely, speech errors ), " bon mots " ( spontaneous humorous quips ), and analogies of all sorts, and his long-time observation of these diverse products of cognition, and his theories about the mechanisms that underlie them, have exerted a powerful influence on the architectures of the computational models developed by himself and FARG members.

In this book, Hofstadter jokingly describes himself as " pilingual " ( meaning that the sum total of the varying degrees of mastery of all the languages that he's studied comes to 3. 14159 ...), as well as an " oligoglot " ( someone who speaks " a few " languages ).

Hofstadter himself refers to it as " my ruminations on the art of translation ".

) In a further play on the title, Hofstadter refers to his deceased wife, to whom the book is dedicated as ma rose (" my rose "), and to himself as ton beau (" your dear ").

Hofstadter — himself very much a big-city person — noted the agrarian ethos was " a kind of homage that Americans have paid to the fancied innocence of their origins, however, to call it a myth does not imply falsity, because it effectively embodies the rural values of the American people, profoundly influencing their perception of the correct values, hence their political behavior.

Popularised by Douglas Hofstadter who wrote several books on himself and the subject of self-reference, often over 700 pages, is the subject of a comical six-word biography created by Randall Munroe, " I'm So Meta, Even This Acronym ," the acronym of which forms " ISMETA " which would then complete the sentence.

The problems were popularised by their occurrence in the 1979 book Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter, himself a composer of Bongard problems.

In the xkcd webcomic, Randall Munroe jokingly offered a six-word sentence purporting to be the autobiography of Hofstadter: " I'm So Meta, Even This Acronym ," whose acronym spells " IS META.

Within philosophy familiar names include Daniel Dennett who writes from a computational systems perspective, John Searle known for his controversial Chinese room, Jerry Fodor who advocates functionalism, and Douglas Hofstadter, famous for writing Gödel, Escher, Bach, which questions the nature of words and thought.

The name " quine " was coined by Douglas Hofstadter, in his popular science book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, in the honor of philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine ( 1908 – 2000 ), who made an extensive study of indirect self-reference, and in particular for the following paradox-producing expression, known as Quine's paradox:

The term was popularized in the United States in 1944 by the American historian Richard Hofstadter who used it in the ideological war effort against fascism to denote a reactionary creed which promoted competitive strife, racism and nationalism.

Stanford University's Department of Physics credits Hofstadter with being " one of the principal scientists who developed the Compton Observatory.

There are many examples of self reference and use – mention distinction in the works of Douglas Hofstadter, who makes the distinction thus:

" While Hofstadter is generally credited with popularizing the term in his book " Social Darwinism in American Life " it was Talcott Parsons who paved the way for Hofstadter.

Commager was representative of a whole generation of like-minded historians who were widely read by the general public, including Samuel Eliot Morison, Allan Nevins, Richard Hofstadter, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., and C. Vann Woodward.

Schawlow and Professor Robert Hofstadter at Stanford, who also had an autistic child, teamed up to help each other find solutions to the condition.

Richard Hofstadter was born in Buffalo, New York, in 1916 to a German American Lutheran mother and a Jewish father, who died when Richard was ten.

It is referenced in the book Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter, who calls it an example of a strange loop.

The urban scene during the Progressive era was examined by Hofstadter who concluded that the city provided little support for the movement.

Egbert B. Gebstadter is a fictional author who appears in the indexes ( and sometimes in the text ) of books by Douglas R. Hofstadter.