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.

Further Resources

Jay 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-9780190933401

Candrakirti and Hume on the Self and the Person (Jay Garfield): https://jaygarfield.files.wordpress.com/2020/04/candrakicc84rti-and-hume-on-self.pdf

Madhyamaka philosophy (and Chandrakirti):

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/madhyamaka/

https://iep.utm.edu/madhyamaka-buddhist-philosophy/

Music Credits:

Brittle Rille by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3460-brittle-rille

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/