Meaning of Life with Prof. Jay L. Garfield

Published: Sept. 22, 2016, 11:38 p.m.

Professor Garfield has written more than 15 books and 100 scholarly articles on the beliefs our world lives by. His work ranges across a vast historical sweep of intellectual traditions and profound texts, all to foster an appreciation of the diversity central to the question, “What is the meaning of life?”
Jay L Garfield is Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Professor of Humanities and Head of Studies in Philosophy at Yale-NUS College, Professor of Philosophy at the National University of Singapore, Recurrent Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, Doris Silbert Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at Smith College, Professor of Philosophy at Melbourne University and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at the Central University of Tibetan Studies. He earned his PhD in Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh. Professor 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.