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Charles Taylor is a Canadian philosopher, writer, and university teacher born in Montreal in 1931. He holds a doctorate and has worked at Northwestern University, McGill University, and Université de Montréal. His academic field is philosophy, and he is associated with the political ideology of communitarianism. Taylor is a member of the New Democratic Party and identifies with the Catholic Church. He speaks English and French.
He has received the Molson Prize, Hegel Prize, Templeton Prize, and Kluge Prize. Taylor is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Society of Canada, and the National Academy of Sciences. He was educated at McGill University and Balliol College. His sibling is Gretta Chambers.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 37
Top works
- A summary account of the London Savings' Bank
- Guidelines for the Control and Monitoring of Methane Gas on Continuous Mining Operations
- Diffraction
- Reconciling the Solitudes, Essayson Canadian Federalism and Nationalism
- Memorials of genius
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1989-12-13
Discography
- Taylor Swift2006
- Fearless2008
- Speak Now2010
- Red2012
- 19892014
- reputation2017
- Lover2019
- folklore2020
- evermore2020
- Fearless (Taylor’s Version)2021
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,747
- Total plays
- 4,512
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Academic profile · OpenAlex
- Works
- 298
- Cited by
- 30,616
Research areas
Most cited works
- A Secular Age2007 · 4,014 cit
- Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity1991 · 3,742 cit
- Multiculturalism: Examining the Politics of Recognition.1994 · 3,111 cit
- Philosophy and the Human Sciences1985 · 2,670 cit
- The Politics of Recognition1995 · 2,461 cit
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Research electronic data capture (REDCap)—A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support
· 2009 · cited 46,854x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,569x
- The Pittsburgh sleep quality index: A new instrument for psychiatric practice and research
· 1989 · cited 29,226x
- Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning
· 2015 · cited 23,802x
- Array programming with NumPy
· 2020 · cited 23,501x
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Quotes
- “To know who I am is a species of knowing where I stand. My identity is defined by the commitments and identifications which provide the frame or horizon within which I can try to determine from case to case what is good, or valuable, or what ought to be done, or what I endorse or oppose. In other words, it is the horizon within which I am capable of taking a stand.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Charles Margrave Taylor , ( 1931-11-05 ) November 5, 1931 (age 94) , Montreal , Quebec , Canada
- Spouses
- Alba Romer Taylor ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1956 ; died 1990 ) Aube Billard ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1995 )
- Relatives
- Gretta Chambers (sister) Egan Chambers (brother-in-law)
- Awards
- Templeton Prize (2007) Kyoto Prize (2008) Kluge Prize (2015) Berggruen Prize (2016)
- Alma mater
- McGill University Balliol College, Oxford
- Thesis
- Explanation in Social Science (1961)
- Doctoral advisor
- Sir Isaiah Berlin
- Era
- Contemporary philosophy
- Region
- Western philosophy Canadian philosophy
- School
- Analytic philosophy (early) continental philosophy ( hermeneutics ) (late) communitarianism Hegelianism
- Institutions
- All Souls College, Oxford McGill University Northwestern University
- Doctoral students
- Ruth Abbey Frederick C. Beiser Michael E. Rosen Michael J. Sandel
- Notable students
- Richard Kearney Guy Laforest Daniel Weinstock
- Main interests
- Social philosophy political philosophy cosmopolitanism secularity religion modernity
- Notable works
- Sources of the Self (1989) The Malaise of Modernity (1991) " The Politics of Recognition " (1992) A Secular Age (2007)
- Notable ideas
- Communitarian critique of liberalism critique of naturalism and formalist epistemology engaged hermeneutics
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Encyclopedic overview
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