S3 E5: Jay Garfield

In this episode, I talk with Jay Garfield, Professor of Philosophy at Smith College, about the Buddhist philosopher Candrakirti and how teaching Indian philosophy at Yale-NUS impacted his understanding of Western philosophers like Hume.April 11, 2026: This is a revised version of the original podcast. The episode now includes spoken credit for Kevin MacLeod’s music, “Brittle Rille,” which I use for the show.Further ResourcesJay Garfield’s website: https://jaygarfield.org/ David Hume:https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hume/The Concealed Influence of Custom (Jay Garfield): https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-concealed-influence-of-custom-9780190933401Candrakirti and Hume on the Self and the Person (Jay Garfield): https://jaygarfield.files.wordpress.com/2020/04/candrakicc84rti-and-hume-on-self.pdfMadhyamaka philosophy (and Chandrakirti):https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/madhyamaka/https://iep.utm.edu/madhyamaka-buddhist-philosophy/Music Credits:“Brittle Rille,” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/