To take philosophy seriously is to engage with it philosophically.

- Jay L. Garfield

In the USA, we learn "art history" as Western art history, and the history of Asian, or African art is a special case; we learn politics by examining…

- Jay L. Garfield

The goal of education should be to dismantle the Middle Pole view, not to reinforce it in the name of the need for a grounding in one's own civilisat…

- Jay L. Garfield

Buddhist epistemologists do argue that rational analysis leads to the conclusion that rational analysis cannot give us infallible access to truth, in…

- Jay L. Garfield

When I went to college I knew what I wanted to study, and what career I wanted to pursue. I wanted to study psychology in order to become a clinical …

- Jay L. Garfield

Western philosophers gained access to Asian and African traditions initially by noting similarities and differences. But that, as A.C. Mukerji, of Al…

- Jay L. Garfield

When we translate, we always to some extent betray the text we are translating. That is why translation is so hard and thankless. All you can do is t…

- Jay L. Garfield

I think that parochialism is built into many kinds of nationalism and educational institutions in which children are brought up to treat their own cu…

- Jay L. Garfield

We take Aristotle seriously not when we write about his ideas, but when we take his ideas as part of our discussions.

- Jay L. Garfield