Western Idealism and Its Critics

Jay L Garfield is Doris Silbert Professor in the Humanities, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Logic 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 University of Tibetan Studies. AtSmith, he is also the Director of the Five College Tibetan Studies in India Program, the oldest exchange program linking Tibetan universities in India with Western colleges and universities. Prof Garfield 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.

A graduate from the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics. Dharamsala and Drepung Loseling Monastery, South India, Geshe Dadul Namgyal served, in the past over ten years, first, as Principal of Drepung Loseling School and, later, as Lecturer in Buddhist Philosophy at Central University of Tibetan Studies, Varanasi. He is currently the Senior Resident Teacher at Drepung Loseling Monastery Inc. in Atlanta, Georgia, and is also extending a helping hand in the translation of science texts into Tibetan for the Emory-Tibet Science Initiative, an undertaking of the Emory-Tibet Partnership.

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