Charles Taylor at 90: On Taylor's Legacy and Impact - Guest Editors' Introduction (International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2021 29:5, 665-672) (original) (raw)

THE STRUCTURE OF CHARLES TAYLOR'S PHILOSOPHY

International Philosophical Quarterly, 2023

Perhaps the most striking feature of Taylor's oeuvre is its breadth… his work ranges from reflections on artificial intelligence to analyses of contemporary multicultural societies. Also notable is the scope of his approach to philosophical questions, for he typically brings his knowledge of Greek, Christian, Renaissance and modern thought as well as his appreciation of the arts to bear on such questions .

Charles Taylor: A Reader's Guide

One of the world’s most respected philosophers, Charles Taylor, has just won the $1 million Berggruen Prize. Taylor is an exceptional thinker whose work can be of value both personally and in public life. His publications will reward readers with very different interests from personal identity to the challenges of modern democracy to religion in a secular age. This is a brief reader's guide.

Perspectives on the Philosophy of Charles Taylor

Sample chapters: "Introduction", Arto Laitinen, Nicholas H. Smith, pp. 5-9. http://www.jyu.fi/yhtfil/fil/armala/INTRO.pdf "On Identity, Alienation and Consequences of September 11th. An Interview with Charles Taylor", Arto Laitinen, Hartmut Rosa. pp.165-195. http://www.jyu.fi/yhtfil/fil/armala/texts/Part%20Four%201112.pdf "Culturalist Moral Realism", Arto Laitinen, p.115-131. http://www.jyu.fi/yhtfil/fil/armala/texts/2002c.pdf See the series: http://www.helsinki.fi/filosofia/acta.htm

Charles Taylor at 85: A Tribute to a Theorist of Historical Change

Like all great thinkers, Charles Taylor was able with his oeuvre to challenge and often change the vocabulary, habits and theoretical imaginary of his readers. In this sense, he deserves to be celebrated as a teacher in the broadest sense of the word. Especially remarkable is his mastery in making the complexity of our experience as modern men and women accessible. Now, the first thing that can be learned from his sane attitude towards modern epistemology is the resolve to embrace what he once called "a hazy picture of history" , in which order and chaos coexist in the same picture as a warning for the purity seekers. Our view of history must remain somewhat hazy because, if we want to understand long-term change without resorting to an old-style philosophy of history, we have to do justice both to historical discontinuity and to historical continuity. Thus, understanding deep historical change means being able to combine a fair dose of theoretical recklessness and a good eye for the details.

A Conversation with Charles Taylor

Symposium, 2005

Charles Taylor is Canada's best-known philosopher and one of the world's most influential and prolific philosophers today. He has taught at Oxford, Princeton, and Berkeley. In 1961, he became Professor of Philosophy and Political Science at McGill University, where he is now Emeritus Professor. Taylor has published more than 280 articles and twenty books, including the much-acclaimed Hegel (1975), Sources of the Self (1989), and The Ethics of Authenticity (1991). His works have been translated into more than twenty languages, many books have been published on his philosophy, and several conferences dedicated to his thought have been organized in various countries. He has elaborated his works in dialogue with the major contemporary figures of Western philosophy while also being a key figure in contemporary debates about the self, multiculturalism, the methodology of the social and natural sciences, ethics, artificial intelligence, language, and the problems of modernity. Taylor is a political activist and public intellectual who has been highly involved in the Canadian political scene, running four times for Federal Parliament as a member of the New Democratic Party. In the 1970s he became Vice President of the NDP and today is a member of Quebec's Conseil de la langue francaise Professor Taylor is the recipient of numerous prizes, including the 2003 inaugural Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Gold Medal for Achievement in Research.

Rereading Modernity - Charles Taylor on its Genesis and Prospects

2016

Rereading Modernity – Charles Taylor on its Genesis and Prospects Tone Svetelj Advisor: Arthur Madigan Charles Taylor belongs to the group of contemporary philosophers who with their original, diagnostic, challenging, and critical reflection shape our comprehension of modernity in general and, in particular our understanding of the human agent. Taylor’s philosophical opus represents a complex comprehension of modernity which integrates various currents of modern political thought (liberalism, utilitarianism, materialism, pragmatism, naturalism, relativism, Marxism), as well as ethical, moral and social issues, historical, theological, religious and spiritual topics, such as the relationship between religion and society, epistemological and ontological components, art and poetry, questions of language, challenges of peaceful coexistence in the globalizing world characterized by the process of unification and universalization on the one side, and on the other side by individualization...

Encounters with and impulses from Charles Taylor

Philosophy & Social Criticism, 2018

Among the more prominent contemporary philosophers I have known personally and repeatedly reference in my own work (Stanley Cavell, Jürgen Habermas, Charles Taylor and Hilary Putnam), Charles Taylor was decisive to my own attempts to contribute to the differentiation of contemporary religious-philosophical discourse. When we first met at a workshop led by Jürgen Habermas at the Inter-University-Center in Dubrovnik in the late 1970s, "Philosophy and Social Sciences," I was, of course, unaware that Taylor was about to engage in extensive research on religious questions. We spent lunch discussing the merits and limitations of Habermasian theory, particularly with regard to certain intellectual impulses (not entirely acknowledged by Habermas), which can be derived from Hegel's work for the present day. I was intrigued by Taylor's argument that "in so far as this search for a situated subjectivity takes philosophical form, Hegel's thought will be one of its indispensable points of reference." 1 One outcome of this initial contact was a presentation on "Charles Taylor's Hegelian critique of 'mainstream analytical philosophy'," 2 which I delivered at the 3rd Congress of the Societas Hegeliana at the Université de Paris X-Nanterre in 1988. This talk dealt with the question of how Taylor's "qualitative concept of action" could be positioned against misappropriations thereof in the Davidsonian "theory of action" and in "artificial intelligence theory." 3 While participating in the annual meeting of the Canadian Philosophical Association on Prince Edward Island in the early 1990s, I became aware of the book The Malaise of Modernity-Taylor's Massey Lectures, soon republished by Harvard under the title The Ethics of Authenticity. I managed to finish the book in a single reading on the sidelines of the conference. Most impressive about Taylor's analysis of modernity was the complexity of his argumentation. On the one hand, Taylor stresses that "the effective re-enframing of technology" necessitates political action "to reverse the drift that market