The Cognition Project

This bonus episode of The Cognition Project features the introduction of The Laws of Thought, Tom Griffiths's new book. The interviews in The Cognition Project were used as part of the research for the book, which tells the story of the quest for a mathematical theory of the mind, from the cognitive revolution to modern AI.

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The Cognition Project is an oral history of cognitive science. Created and hosted by Tom Griffiths, the head of Princeton’s AI Lab and a professor of psychology and computer science.

This episode is with Susan Carey, who worked with Jerome Bruner both as an undergraduate and a graduate student before going on to make her own deep contributions to our understanding of how children’s minds work. As a consequence, she had a front row seat to the earliest days of cognitive science and helped it grow through her interactions with psychologists, linguists, and philosophers.

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The Cognition Project is an oral history of cognitive science. Created and hosted by Tom Griffiths, the head of Princeton’s AI Lab and a renowned expert in the field of cognitive science.

Today’s episode is with Molly Potter, who did ground-breaking work developing new methods for studying how our brains extract and store information from the world around us. She also had the chance to see some of the important moments in the creation of cognitive science firsthand.

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The Cognition Project is an oral history of cognitive science. Created and hosted by Tom Griffiths, the head of Princeton’s AI Lab and a professor of psychology and computer science.

The first story in the series is that of Jerome Bruner, who was really the person who helped to launch the cognitive revolution. In the first half of the 20th century, psychologists decided that if they wanted to be scientists they should study behavior and its causes rather than subjective impressions and mental states. Bruner intentionally ran experiments that revealed the limits of this approach and started to show how mathematical ideas could be used to create a rigorous science of the mind.
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