Jadyn Forman
Biographic Data
| ID | 115303 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jadyn Forman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jadyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Forman |
| SIGNATURE | FORMAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Simpson College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6039-7041 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Vaccine Knowledge and Acceptance Among Hadzabe Hunter‐Gatherers in Tanzania
OBJECTIVES: Vaccines are highly successful in preventing disease, but misinformation has fueled vaccine hesitancy globally, thereby reducing immunization rates and weakening herd immunity. Vaccine knowledge and hesitancy among hunter-gatherers is a crucial area of research and intervention, as their mobile lifestyle exacerbates other challenges, such as marginalization and medical mistrust. METHODS: In our exploratory study, we surveyed 91 Hadzab…
Forgetting Oneself: Tsongkhapa and Severance
This paper explores philosophical issues of personal identity and its connection to forgetting through the famed Tibetan Buddhist thinker Tsongkhapa (1357-1419). Tsongkhapa, in turn, follows the Middle Way (madhyamaka) tradition of Nāgārjuna (c. 150-250 CE) and Candrakīrti (c. 600-650 CE). Specifically, Tsongkhapa demonstrates that we can make sense of a consistent personal continuity despite the disruptions of forgetting and remembering. In so d…
Bejamin Grant Purzycki and Richard Sosis, Religion Evolving: Cultural, Cognitive, and Ecological Dynamics
Bejamin Grant Purzycki and Richard Sosis, Religion Evolving: Cultural, Cognitive, and Ecological Dynamics (Sheffield, UK: Equinox, 2022), xviii + 247 pp., £75 (pbk), ISBN: 9781800500525
Polemical Paths: Tsongkhapa and Taktsang on Yogic Perception
Tibetan Buddhist polemics are often perceived as a type of hairsplitting or logic chopping, where defeating one’s opponent is more highly prized than arriving at truth. This assumes that Tibetan polemicists are obsessed with inconsequential minutiae and invested in nitpicking, trite attempts at self-aggrandizement. This article seeks to undermine the notion of Tibetan polemics as mere quibbling, arguing that what appears to be competitive carping…
Seeing Afar: Yogic Perception, Extramission, and Intellectual History
“Piercing gazes” or “penetrative stares” are common idioms in English. Yet, on reflection, these phrases oddly suggest an extramissive, projective connotation of vision, countering our learned understanding that sight passively receives light. Nevertheless, these projective connotations are highly intuitive. Exploring Indian debates on yogic perception through a cognitive science lens, this paper argues that extramissive theories of sight constit…
Defiant Worship: Religious Liberty Talk and Rights in Covid-19 Pandemic Times
This article draws on interactive social media content collected from Facebook and Twitter during the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic in order to examine responses to the public health measures that restricted indoor forms of religious assembly. Restrictions on indoor religious gatherings were challenged in courts and their constitutionality was addressed by the Supreme Court over the summer of 2020. This historic period, with lockdowns…
Double hiddenness: Governmentality and subjectivization in Gelug Buddhism
Tibetan Buddhism, the Gelug school specifically, promotes a deep skepticism about the ability to know others' minds. Its scripture is rife with cautionary tales allegorizing and extolling this skepticism in adherents, while claiming a buddha, by contrast, has eradicated this skepticism with their omniscience. I describe a buddha's purported privileged epistemic access to others' minds as "double-hiddenness." On this skepticism, not just what a bu…
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Double hiddenness: Governmentality and subjectivization in Gelug Buddhism
Tibetan Buddhism, the Gelug school specifically, promotes a deep skepticism about the ability to know others' minds. Its scripture is rife with cautionary tales allegorizing and extolling this skepticism in adherents, while claiming a buddha, by contrast, has eradicated this skepticism with their omniscience. I describe a buddha's purported privileged epistemic access to others' minds as "double-hiddenness." On this skepticism, not just what a bu…
Seeing Afar: Yogic Perception, Extramission, and Intellectual History
“Piercing gazes” or “penetrative stares” are common idioms in English. Yet, on reflection, these phrases oddly suggest an extramissive, projective connotation of vision, countering our learned understanding that sight passively receives light. Nevertheless, these projective connotations are highly intuitive. Exploring Indian debates on yogic perception through a cognitive science lens, this paper argues that extramissive theories of sight constit…
Defiant Worship: Religious Liberty Talk and Rights in Covid-19 Pandemic Times
This article draws on interactive social media content collected from Facebook and Twitter during the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic in order to examine responses to the public health measures that restricted indoor forms of religious assembly. Restrictions on indoor religious gatherings were challenged in courts and their constitutionality was addressed by the Supreme Court over the summer of 2020. This historic period, with lockdowns…
Bejamin Grant Purzycki and Richard Sosis, Religion Evolving: Cultural, Cognitive, and Ecological Dynamics
Bejamin Grant Purzycki and Richard Sosis, Religion Evolving: Cultural, Cognitive, and Ecological Dynamics (Sheffield, UK: Equinox, 2022), xviii + 247 pp., £75 (pbk), ISBN: 9781800500525
Polemical Paths: Tsongkhapa and Taktsang on Yogic Perception
Tibetan Buddhist polemics are often perceived as a type of hairsplitting or logic chopping, where defeating one’s opponent is more highly prized than arriving at truth. This assumes that Tibetan polemicists are obsessed with inconsequential minutiae and invested in nitpicking, trite attempts at self-aggrandizement. This article seeks to undermine the notion of Tibetan polemics as mere quibbling, arguing that what appears to be competitive carping…
Vaccine Knowledge and Acceptance Among Hadzabe Hunter‐Gatherers in Tanzania
OBJECTIVES: Vaccines are highly successful in preventing disease, but misinformation has fueled vaccine hesitancy globally, thereby reducing immunization rates and weakening herd immunity. Vaccine knowledge and hesitancy among hunter-gatherers is a crucial area of research and intervention, as their mobile lifestyle exacerbates other challenges, such as marginalization and medical mistrust. METHODS: In our exploratory study, we surveyed 91 Hadzab…
Forgetting Oneself: Tsongkhapa and Severance
This paper explores philosophical issues of personal identity and its connection to forgetting through the famed Tibetan Buddhist thinker Tsongkhapa (1357-1419). Tsongkhapa, in turn, follows the Middle Way (madhyamaka) tradition of Nāgārjuna (c. 150-250 CE) and Candrakīrti (c. 600-650 CE). Specifically, Tsongkhapa demonstrates that we can make sense of a consistent personal continuity despite the disruptions of forgetting and remembering. In so d…
Philosophy (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Buddhism (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Cognitive psychology (2 works) · Indian and Buddhist Studies (2 works)