The logos, ethos, and pathos of your LLMs
Source: Stack Overflow Blog
February 10, 2026
Ryan is joined by Professor Tom Griffiths, head of Princeton University’s AI Lab, to dive into findings from his new book The Laws of Thought. The conversation explores the history of the philosophy, mathematics, and logic that underlie artificial intelligence, and scientists’ efforts to describe our minds using mathematics.
Credit: Alexandra Francis
Discussion Topics
- The challenges of understanding human cognition.
- Implications of probabilistic AI “thinking.”
- Where Aristotle fits into contemporary philosophical debates on consciousness and sentience in AI.
The Laws of Thought
The Laws of Thought details our quest to use mathematics to describe the ways we think, from its origins three hundred years ago to the ideas behind modern AI systems and how human minds differ from neural networks.
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