Jed Forman received his undergrad in philosophy from Tufts University with a special certificate for additional studies in Ethics, Law, and Society. After college, he had a successful seven-year career as a computer programmer and street dancer, performing and teaching in New York, LA, and internationally. Jed received his M.S. with distinction in Kinesiology and Dance from California State University Northridge in 2014. He thereafter returned to his interest in Buddhist philosophy, entering the doctoral program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Completing his research in India under Fulbright and American Institute of Indian St…
Jed Forman received his undergrad in philosophy from Tufts University with a special certificate for additional studies in Ethics, Law, and Society. After college, he had a successful seven-year career as a computer programmer and street dancer, performing and teaching in New York, LA, and internationally. Jed received his M.S. with distinction in Kinesiology and Dance from California State University Northridge in 2014. He thereafter returned to his interest in Buddhist philosophy, entering the doctoral program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Completing his research in India under Fulbright and American Institute of Indian Studies grants, he graduated in 2021. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley, he was hired as the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Assistant Professor in Buddhist Studies at Simpson College in Indianola, IA. He is currently the Bhagwan Mallinath Assistant Professor at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He is co-author of Knowing Illusion with the Yakherds on the epistemology of Taktsang Lotsāwa, a luminary of Tibetan philosophical thought (Oxford University Press, 2021). Jed’s latest monograph is Out of Sight, Into Mind, which surveys the intellectual development of yogic perception from India to Tibet, as well as its connections to Western philosophy (Columbia University Press, 2024). His current project explores connections between intuitionistic logic and the various logical systems in India and Tibet.
