Jay L. Garfield

(1955) Philosopher

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Jay L. Garfield is a philosopher.

Quick Facts About Jay L. Garfield

Born: November 13, 1955
Profession: Philosopher

About Jay L. Garfield

[Wikidata] philosopher... | [Wikipedia] Jay Lazar Garfield is an American professor of philosophy who specializes in Tibetan Buddhism. He also specializes on the philosophy of mind, cognitive science, epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of language, ethics, and hermeneutics. He is currently the Doris Silbert Professor in the Humanities

Quotes by Jay L. Garfield

To take philosophy seriously is to engage with it philosophically.

Jay L. Garfield

Philosophy

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I think that parochialism is built into many kinds of nationalism and educational institutions in which children are brought up to treat…

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Built

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We take Aristotle seriously not when we write about his ideas, but when we take his ideas as part of our discussions.

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Discussion

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When I went to college I knew what I wanted to study, and what career I wanted to pursue. I wanted to…

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Career

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In the USA, we learn "art history" as Western art history, and the history of Asian, or African art is a special…

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Art

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Western philosophers gained access to Asian and African traditions initially by noting similarities and differences. But that, as A.C. Mukerji, of Allahabad,…

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Access

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When we translate, we always to some extent betray the text we are translating. That is why translation is so hard and…

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Betray

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The goal of education should be to dismantle the Middle Pole view, not to reinforce it in the name of the need…

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Civilisation

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Buddhist epistemologists do argue that rational analysis leads to the conclusion that rational analysis cannot give us infallible access to truth, including…

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Access

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