Jay Garfield

Jay L. GarfieldÊdirects the 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.↵↵GarfieldÕs 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 Yog_c_ra.↵↵GarfieldÕs most recent books areÊMinds Without Fear: Philosophy in the Indian Renaissance(with Nalini Bhushan, 2017),ÊDign_gaÕs Investigation of the Percept: A Philosophical Legacy in India and TibetÊ(with Douglas Duckworth, David Eckel, John Powers, Yeshes Thabkhas and Sonam Thakchše, 2016)ÊEngaging Buddhism: Why it Matters to PhilosophyÊ(2015),ÊMoonpaths: Ethics and EmptinessÊ(with the Cowherds, 2015) and (edited, with Jan Westerhoff),ÊMadhyamaka and Yog_c_ra: Allies or Rivals?Ê(2015).↵↵He is currently working on a book with Yasuo Deguchi, Graham Priest and Robert Sharf,ÊWhat CanÕt Be Said: Paradox and Contradiction in East Asian Philosophy; a book on HumeÕsÊTreatise,ÊThe Concealed Operations of Custom: HumeÕs Treatise from the Inside Out; a large collaborative project on Geluk-Sakya epistemological debates in 15th- to 18th-century Tibet following on Taktshang LotsawaÕsÊ18 Great Contradictions in the Thought of TsongkhapaÊand empirical research with another team on the impact of religious ideology on attitudes toward death.