Schmid, Karl T.

Karl Schmid joins the Tulane philosophy department from Emory University, where he was recently an American Council of Learned Societies Robert H.N. Ho Foundation dissertation fellow. He has taught courses on Buddhism at Emory College, on Sanskrit at Candler School of Theology, and on philosophy of science at Sera Mey Monastery in India, as part of the Emory-Tibet Science Initiative. His research focuses on Buddhist theories of meditation and how they relate to contemporary philosophy of mind, ethics and epistemology.