Posted on March 31: Lecturer presents panorama of pleasure-providing patterns

[img_inline align=”right” src=”http://padnws01.mcmaster.ca/images/Hofstadter_Douglas.jpg” caption=”Douglas Hofstadter”]Internationally acclaimed writer and cognitive science researcher Douglas Hofstadter will probe why patterns provide pleasure during a public lecture Thursday.

Hosted by McMaster's Department of Philosophy, the lecture, “Patterns as Pleasure-Providers” will include a panorama of pleasure patterns, such as poetry, photography and physics.

It will take place Thursday, April 3 from 8 to 10 p.m. in Burke Science Building, Rm. 147.

Hofstadter is College of Arts and Sciences professor of cognitive science at Indiana University, where he also directs the Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition. Born in New York City in 1945, he grew up largely in California. In addition to his native English, he speaks French and Italian fluently and several other languages at varying fractional levels.

For more information about Hofstadter and his lecture visit http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~philos/Events.htm

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[img_inline align="right" src="http://padnws01.mcmaster.ca/images/Hofstadter_Douglas.jpg" caption="Douglas Hofstadter"]Internationally acclaimed writer and cognitive science researcher Douglas Hofstadter will probe why patterns provide pleasure during a public lecture Thursday.<p><br />
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Hosted by McMaster&#039;s Department of Philosophy, the lecture, "Patterns as Pleasure-Providers" will include a panorama of pleasure patterns, such as poetry, photography and physics.<p><br />
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It will take place Thursday, April 3 from 8 to 10 p.m. in Burke Science Building, Rm. 147. <p><br />
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Hofstadter is College of Arts and Sciences professor of cognitive science at Indiana University, where he also directs the Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition.  Born in New York City in 1945, he grew up largely in California. In addition to his native English, he speaks French and Italian fluently and several other languages at varying fractional levels. <p><br />
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For more information about Hofstadter and his lecture visit <a href="http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~philos/Events.htm">http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~philos/Events.htm</a>

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