- 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