Thought and Ethics

Charles Margrave Taylor

Canada / Nobember 5, 1931
Philosopher
Professor Emeritus, McGill University

"Construction of a Social Philosophy to Pursue the Coexistence of Diverse Cultures"
Dr. Taylor is an outstanding philosopher who advocates communitarianism and multiculturalism from the perspective of holistic individualism. He has pointed the future course for us through his own life, envisioning the future in which diverse, heterogeneous cultures peacefully coexist upon mutual recognition.

BRIEF BIOGRAPHY

1931	Born in Montreal, Canada
1952	B.A.(History), McGill University; Rhodes Scholar to University of Oxford
1955	B.A.(Philosophy, Politics & Economics), University of Oxford
1956-1961	Fellow of All Souls' College, Oxford; Studied under Isaiah Berlin
1960	MA, University of Oxford
1961	Ph.D.(Philosophy), University of Oxford
1961-1971	Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, McGill University;
1962-1971	Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Montreal
1972	Professor, Department of Political Science, McGill University
1974, 1983	Mills Visiting Professor Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley
1976	Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory, University of Oxford
1984	Suhrkamp Lecturer, University of Frankfurt
1992	Tanner Lecturer, Stanford University
1996	Max Horkheimer Lecturer, University of Frankfurt
1998	Professor Emeritus, Department of Philosophy, McGill University
2002-2007	Board of Trustees Professor of Law and Philosophy, Northwestern University

SELECTED AWARDS AND HONORS

1992	Le Prix Léon-Gérin, Gouvernement du Québec
1995	Companion of Order of Canada
2000	Grand Officier de l'Ordre National du Québec
2007	Templeton Prize, John Templeton Foundation
Member:	British Academy, Royal Society of Canada, American Academy of Arts & Sciences

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1975	Hegel, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
1979	Hegel and Modern Society, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
1989	Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.
1991	The Ethics of Authenticity, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.
1992	Multiculturalism, Amy Gutman et al., Princeton University Press, Princeton
1998	Catholic Modernity?, James L. Heft et al., Oxford University Press, New York
2004	Modern Social Imaginaries, Duke University Press, Durham
2007	A Secular Age, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.

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