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JAY L. GARFIELD
Doris Silbert Professor in the Humanities and
Professor of Philosophy
Office: Dewey Front Parlor
Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday 9:00 - 11:00 AM
Extension: 3649
E-mail: jgarfield@smith.edu
Publications
Curriculum Vitae
Recent Papers
Syllabi
TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Jay Garfield is Doris Silbert Professor in the Humanities, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Logic Program and of the Five College Tibetan Studies in India Program at Smith College, Professor in the graduate faculty of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Professor of Philosophy at Melbourne University and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies. He teaches and pursues research in the philosophy of mind, foundations of cognitive science, logic, philosophy of language, Buddhist philosophy, cross-cultural hermeneutics, theoretical and applied ethics and epistemology.
Garfield’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 Nagarjuna’s Mulamadhyamakakarika (Ocean of Reasoning) and Empty Words: Buddhist Philosophy and Cross-Cultural Interpretation (Oxford University Press 2002 and 2006, respectively. Garfield is also working on projects on the development of the theory of mind in children with particular attention to the role of pretence in that process; the acquisition of evidentials and its relation to the development of theory of mind (with Jill deVilliers, Thomas Roeper and Peggy Speas), the history of 20th Century Indian philosophy (with Nalini Bhushan) and the nature of conventional truth in Madhyamaka (with Graham Priest and Tom Tillemans). He recently co-directed, with Peter Gregory, Jill Ker Conway Professor of Religion and Buddhist Studies, a year-long research institute, Trans-Buddhism: Transmission, Translation and Transformation investigating the interaction of Buddhist societies with the West.
Other books in progress include the Oxford Handbook of World Philosophy (editor), Readings in Buddhist Philosophy (co-editor with William Edelglass for Oxford University Press), Trans-Buddhism: Transmission, Translation and Transformation (co-editor with Nalini Bhushan and Abraham Zablocki, for the University of Massachusetts Press), and Sweet Reason: A Field Guide to Modern Logic (co-authored with Jim Henle and the late Thomas Tymoczko).
PUBLICATIONS
  
RECENT PAPERS
Reductionism and Fictionalism
Why did Bodhidharma go to the East?: Buddhism's Struggle with Mind in the World
Translation as Transmission and Transformation
Buddhist Studies, Buddhist Practice and the Trope of Authenticity
Buddhist Ethics
IN
PRESS
Public Trust
Mountains are Just Mountains
Contradictions in Buddhism
ROUGH DRAFTS
Let's Pretend
Intention: Doing Away with Mental Representation
Taking Conventional Truth Seriously
SYLLABI SPRING 2008
PHI 260
PHI 330
The following courses will be taught next year:
Fall
LOG 100 - Valid and Invalid Reasoning: What Follows from What and What Follows
from That??(with Jim Henle)
PHI 252 Buddhist Philosophy: Madhyamaka and Yogacara
Spring
PHI 260 - Hermeneutics: Meaning and Interpretation
PHI 330 - Seminar in Tibetan Philosophy
The following courses are not currently being taught by
Jay:
PHI 211 - The Philosophy
of Ludwig Wittgenstein
PHI 220 - Incompletenes and Inconsistency
PHI 594m - Mind and Meaning:
The Philosophy of Wilfrid Sellars
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