The James Martneau Memorial Lecture 2025: “Seeing ourselves and others: what we can learn from Buddhist ethics”

The James Martineau Memorial Lecture 2025

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.

Jay 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.