Seeing ourselves and Others: What we can Learn from Buddhist Ethics - Presented by Professor Jay L Garfield

Cross-cultural philosophy is important simply because there are multiple ways to ask and to answer philosophical questions, and no single tradition has a monopoly on them.  Attention to Buddhist ethics can enrich our moral discourse by drawing our attention to moral perception, as opposed to moral rules or actions.

Please join us for drinks and canapes from 5.30pm, prior to the Lecture commencing at 6.00pm.

Jay L Garfield

Jay L. Garfield is Doris Silbert Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy and Buddhist Studies at Smith College, emeritus, and Professor of Philosophy at Melbourne University. He has also taught at Harvard Divinity School, Yale University, the National University of Singapore, Yale-NUS College, the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies, and Hampshire College. Academicinfluence.com has identified him as one of the 50 most influential philosophers in the world over the past decade. 

Garfield’s research addresses topics in the foundations of cognitive science and the philosophy of mind; metaphysics; the history of modern Indian philosophy; normativity, epistemology and ethics; the philosophy of logic; methodology in cross-cultural interpretation; and topics in Buddhist philosophy, particularly Indo-Tibetan Madhyamaka and Yogācāra.  He is the author or editor of over 30 books and over 200 articles, chapters, and reviews.