Brian Taylor – A consistent Vision

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.

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 .

Journal of Religion, 2015

review article treating two books by Mark C. Taylor: Refiguring the Spiritual and Rewiring the Real.

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

2021

A complete chronological bibliography of the publications of Ira Robinson: 1976-2021

The Canadian Historical Review, 2010

This guest editors' introduction explains the rationale for the special issue “Charles Taylor at 90: On Taylor’s Legacy and Impact.” It describes the contributions to the special issue and summarizes Taylor’s replies.

"functions and infinite series, George Mpantes amazon" The central idea of Taylor was to use polynomials to approximate a given function f (x).

The Missouri Review, 2011

Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, 2008

For more than a half-century, cardiovascular scientist Fletcher B. Taylor, Jr., M.D., (portrayed above) has made important contributions to preclinical, translational and clinical research in vascular biology, coagulation and pathophysiology of sepsis. His work in the laboratory led to the creation of a lifesaving drug -the first and the only FDA-approved treatment for severe sepsis. So, the advent of Taylor's 80th birthday seems the ideal moment to dedicate this series of reviews on sepsis to a devoted scientist, a compassionate physician and a true Renaissance man.