He received his BA in philosophy from Grinnell College and his MA and PhD in philosophy from Yale University. He also has an MA in religion from Columbia University, where he focused on Buddhist philosophy and religion. The focus of Professor Spackman’s current research is on the connection between experience and language, and in particular on recent debates about whether various types of experience should be viewed as conceptual or nonconceptual-as mediated by concepts, or as independent of concepts. He also has a special research interest in Buddhist philosophy, and in particular on Buddhist perspectives on the relationships between mind, language, and reality.