Jay L. Garfield

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bio	Jay L. Garfield chairs the Philosophy department and directs Smith’s logic and Buddhist studies programs and the Five College Tibetan Studies in India program. He is also visiting professor of Buddhist philosophy at Harvard Divinity School, professor of philosophy at Melbourne University and adjunct professor of philosophy at the Central University of Tibetan Studies. Garfield’s research addresses topics in the foundations of cognitive science and the philosophy of mind; the history of Indian philosophy during the colonial period; topics in ethics, epistemology and the philosophy of logic; methodology in cross-cultural interpretation; and topics in Buddhist philosophy, particularly Indo-Tibetan Madhyamaka and Yogācāra. Garfield’s most recent books are Minds Without Fear: Philosophy in the Indian Renaissance (with Nalini Bhushan, 2017), Dignāga’s Investigation of the Percept: A Philosophical Legacy in India and Tibet (with Douglas Duckworth, David Eckel, John Powers, Yeshes Thabkhas and Sonam Thakchöe, 2016) Engaging Buddhism: Why it Matters to Philosophy (2015), Moonpaths: Ethics and Emptiness (with the Cowherds, 2015) and (edited, with Jan Westerhoff), Madhyamaka and Yogācāra: Allies or Rivals? (2015). He is currently working on a book with Yasuo Deguchi, Graham Priest and Robert Sharf, What Can’t Be Said: Paradox and Contradiction in East Asian Philosophy; a book on Hume’s Treatise, The Concealed Operations of Custom: Hume’s Treatise from the Inside Out; a large collaborative project on Geluk-Sakya epistemological debates in 15th- to 18th-century Tibet following on Taktshang Lotsawa’s 18 Great Contradictions in the Thought of Tsongkhapa and empirical research with another team on the impact of religious ideology on attitudes toward death. (Source Accessed Dec 2, 2019)
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Full Name

Jay L. Garfield

Education

B.A., Oberlin College, 1975
M.A., University of Pittsburgh, 1976
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1986

Affiliation

Doris Silbert Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy, Smith College
Director, Five Colleges Tibetan Studies in India Program
Director, Logic Program
Professor, Graduate Faculty of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts
Professor of Philosophy, University of Melbourne
Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies
Collaborateur Scientifique, Université de Lausanne

Other Information

Doris Silbert Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy
Office: Dewey Front Parlor
Extension: 3649
Contact Details
Address: Department of Philosophy Smith College Northampton, MA 01063 USA
Phone:+1 413 585 3649
Fax:+1 413 585 3710
Secretary:+1 413 585 3642
E-mail: jgarfield@smith.edu
Phone (India) +91 98399 00490
Phone (Australia)+614 1063 8965
Personal Details
Date of Birth: November 13, 1955
Marital Status: Married, four children
Citizenship: USA, Australia
Home Address:105 January Hills RoadAmherst, MA 01002
Home Phone+1 413 548 9577

Along with Yogācāra, it is one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Nāgārjuna around the second century CE, it is rooted in the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtras, though its initial exposition was presented in Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā.

Along with Madhyamaka, it was one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Asaṅga and Vasubandhu around the fourth century CE, many of its central tenets have roots in the Saṃdhinirmocanasūtra and the so-called third turning of the dharma wheel (see tridharmacakrapravartana).

The Sakya tradition developed in the eleventh century in the Khön family of Tsang, which maintained an imperial-era lineage of Vajrakīla and which adopted a new teaching from India known as Lamdre.