The man who Hofstadter's law is named after's profession is the professor of cognitive science.
Hofstadter's law is a self-referential time-related adage, coined by Douglas Hofstadter and named after him. 
Douglas Richard Hofstadter (born February 15, 1945) is an American professor of cognitive science whose research focuses on the sense of "I" (sense of self in relation to the external world), consciousness, analogy-making, artistic creation, literary translation, and discovery in mathematics and physics. 
