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PROFESSOR Garfield, Jay L
KWAN IM THONG HOOD CHO TEMPLE PROFESSOR IN HUMANITIES AND HEAD OF STUDIES IN PHILOSOPHY, YALE-NUS COLLEGE PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY, NUS
DEPARTMENT of PHILOSOPHY
National University of Singapore
10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore 119260

       
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Jay Garfield is Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple Professor of Humanities and Head of Studies in Philosophy at Yale-NUS College, Professor of Philosophy at NUS, Doris Silbert Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy m at Smith College, Professor of Philosophy at Melbourne University and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at the Central University of Tibetan Studies Jay is the author of over fifty articles addressing questions in the philosophy of mind, the foundations of cognitive science, developmental psycholinguistics, philosophical logic, ethics, hermeneutics and translation theory, Buddhist philosophy and cross-cultural intepretation and the history of Indian philosophy in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Jay's most recent books are his translation, with the ven Prof Geshe Ngawang Samten of the Fourteenth-Fifteenth Century Tibetan Philosopher Tsong Khapa’s commentary on Nāgārjuna’s Mūlamadhyamakakārikā (Ocean of Reasoning) (2002), Empty Words: Buddhist Philosophy and Cross-Cultural Interpretation (2006) Buddhist Philosophy: Essential Readings (co-editor with William Edelglass (2009), Pointing at the Moon: Buddhism, Logic, Analysis (co-edited with Mario D’Amato and Tom Tillemans (2009),  all on Oxford University Press, and Trans-Buddhism: Transmission, Translation and Transformation (co-edited with Nalini Bhushan and Abraham Zablocki, 2009, University of Massachusetts Press), Moonshadows: Conventional Truth in Buddhist Philosophy (with the Cowherds, Oxford 2010), The Oxford Handbook of World Philosophy (edited, with William Edelglass, Oxford 2010), Western Idealism and its Critics (CUTS Press 2011), Indian Philosophy in English from Renaissance to Independence (with Nalini Bhushan, Oxford 2011), Sweet Reason: A Field Guide to Modern Logic (with Jim Henle and Tom Tymoczko, Wiley Blackwell 2011) and Contrary Thinking: Selected Papers of Daya Krishna (edited with Nalini Bhushan and Daniel Raveh, Oxford 2011). 

Jay is also working on a book on why Buddhism matters to contemporary philosophy, an anthology of work on Madhyamaka and Yogācāra, a second book with the Cowherds—this time on Buddhist ethics in the context of the two truths—as well as a history of 20th Century Indian philosophy with Nalini Bhushan. He is working with John Powers, John Makeham and a large international team on a project on Dignāga's Alaṃbanāparikṣā and its Indian, Tibetan and Chinese commentaries and is beginning a project with Yasuo Deguchi, Bob Sharf and Graham Priest on contradition and paradox in East Asian philosophy as well as a project with Shaun Gallagher on the impact of religious ideology concerning the self and rebirth on sense of attachment, fear of death and attitudes towards the afterlife.


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Logic, Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science, Buddhist Philosophy, Cross-Cultural Hermeneutics, Modern Indian Philosophy


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