Tom Griffiths

Tom Griffiths

Professor of Psychology and Computer Science

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Tom Griffiths is the Henry R. Luce Professor of Informational Technology, Consciousness, and Culture in the departments of psychology and computer Science at Princeton University. He also directs Princeton’s Computational Cognitive Science Lab, a research group focused on understanding the mathematical foundations of human cognition, and the Princeton Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence, a new initiative that supports innovative research in AI and related fields. Griffiths is the coauthor of the book Algorithms to Live By, and his award-winning research has been published in journals including Science, Nature, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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In this excerpt from The Laws of Thought, Tom Griffiths shares how George Boole developed a mathematical theory of logic.