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57The Articulated Life: An Interview with Charles TaylorPhilosophy of Management 1 (3): 3-9. 2001.Charles Taylor is one of the most prolific and wide-ranging philosophers in the English-speaking world today. He writes with authority in the fields of moral theory, political philosophy, theories of language, the history of western thought, epistemology and hermeneutics.1 Currently an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at McGill University, he has enjoyed a distinguished academic career which includes being Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at Oxford University. He has also been a…Read more
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47Plus Ça Change: Charles Taylor On Accommodating Quebec’s mInority CulturesThesis Eleven 99 (1): 71-92. 2009.This article examines the 2008 report of the Quebec Government’s Consultation Commission on Accommodation Practices Related to Cultural Differences which was co-authored by Charles Taylor. Summarizing its main themes, it identifies points of intersection with Taylor’s political thought. Issues of citizen equality, including gender equality, secularism, integration and interculturalism, receive special attention
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84Charles Taylor (edited book)Routledge. 2000.Charles Taylor is one of the most influential and prolific philosophers in the English-speaking world today. The breadth of his writings is unique, ranging from reflections on artificial intelligence to analyses of contemporary multicultural societies. This thought-provoking introduction to Taylor's work outlines his ideas in a coherent and accessible way without reducing their richness and depth. His contribution to many of the enduring debates within Western philosophy is examined and the argu…Read more
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70Turning or Spinning? Charles Taylor's Catholicism: A Reply to Ian FraserContemporary Political Theory 5 (2): 163-175. 2006.Charles Taylor's work has recently taken a religious turn, with Taylor becoming more explicit about his own religious faith and its influence on his thinking. Ian Fraser offers a systematic, critical exploration of the nature of Taylor's Catholicism as it appears in his writings. This reply to Fraser endorses his belief in the importance of looking carefully at Taylor's religious views. However, it raises doubts about some of Fraser's particular arguments and conclusions, and aims to foster a cl…Read more
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86Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka , Zoopolis: A Political Theory of Animal Rights . Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 33 (6): 446-448. 2013.
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51No country for older people? Age and the digital divideJournal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society 7 (4): 225-242. 2009.PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to contribute to the literature on age and the digital divide by examining the uses of and attitudes toward information and communication technologies by 26 politically senior citizens.Design/methodology/approachThe approach taken involved in‐depth face‐to‐face interviews.FindingsThe majority of the respondents are informed and balanced cyber‐enthusiasts who have embraced the opportunities afforded by ICTs to enhance their lives in general, including their pol…Read more
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28Entry for Charles TaylorIn John R. Shook & Richard T. Hull (eds.), The Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers, Thoemmes Continuum. pp. 1. 2005.
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1Comparativists and cosmopolitans on cross cultural conversationsRevista de Filosofía (México) 40 (121): 45-64. 2008.First published in 1990, Charles Taylor’s essay ‘Comparison, History Truth’ is an extended reflection on some of the problems involved in interpreting other cultures and eras. This essay’s explicit focus is the work of historians and anthropologists. Taylor mentions students of religion in the same breath, but I infer that by this he means students of comparative religions or the history of religions. I suggest that for all its emphasis on conversation, Taylor’s depiction of the comparativist…Read more
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Another philosopher-citizen : the political philosophy of Charles TaylorIn Catherine H. Zuckert (ed.), Political Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: Authors and Arguments, Cambridge University Press. 2011.This chapter briefly reviews the link between Charles Taylor's life and work. It then discusses his position on the role of science in understanding human behavior. It concludes by considering the relationship between theory and practice in Taylor's thought.
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15The Articulated Life: An Interview with Charles TaylorPhilosophy of Management 1 (3): 3-9. 2001.Charles Taylor is one of the most prolific and wide-ranging philosophers in the English-speaking world today. He writes with authority in the fields of moral theory, political philosophy, theories of language, the history of western thought, epistemology and hermeneutics.1 Currently an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at McGill University, he has enjoyed a distinguished academic career which includes being Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at Oxford University. He has also been a…Read more
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36Review of Ian Fraser, Dialectics of the Self: Transcending Charles Taylor (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2007 (7). 2007.
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24Monika M. Langer , Nietzsche's Gay Science: Dancing Coherence . Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 31 (1): 46-48. 2011.
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162Back toward a Comprehensive Liberalism?Political Theory 35 (1): 5-28. 2007.This article examines the attempts by John Rawls in the works published after Political Liberalism to engage with some of the feminist responses to his work. Rawls goes a long way toward addressing some of the major feministliberal concerns. Yet this has the unintended consequence of pushing justice as fairness in the direction of a more comprehensive, rather than a strictly political, form of liberalism. This does not seem to be a problem peculiar to Rawls: rather, any form of liberalism hospit…Read more
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20The Return of Feminist LiberalismRoutledge. 2011.While it is uncontroversial to point to the liberal roots of feminism, a major issue in English-language feminist political thought over the last few decades has been whether feminism's association with liberalism should be relegated to the past. Can liberalism continue to serve feminist purposes? This book examines the positions of three contemporary feminists - Martha Nussbaum, Susan Moller Okin and Jean Hampton - who, notwithstanding decades of feminist critique, are unwilling to give up on l…Read more
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66Susan Okin's Justice, Gender, and the Family: Twenty‐Five Years LaterHypatia 31 (3): 636-637. 2016.
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93Nietzsche's middle periodOxford University Press. 2000.Ruth Abbey presents a close study of Nietzsche's works, Human, All Too Human, Daybreak, and The Gay Science. Although these middle period works tend to be neglected in commentaries on Nietzsche, they repay careful attention. Abbey's commentary brings to light important differences across Nietzsche's oeuvre that have gone unnoticed, filling a serious gap in the literature.
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22Feminist Interpretations of John Rawls (edited book)Pennsylvania State University Press. 2013.In _Feminist Interpretations of John Rawls_, Ruth Abbey collects eight essays responding to the work of John Rawls from a feminist perspective. An impressive introduction by the editor provides a chronological overview of English-language feminist engagements with Rawls from his Theory of Justice onwards. She surveys the range of issues canvassed by feminist readers of Rawls, as well as critics’ wide disagreement about the value of Rawls’s corpus for feminist purposes. The eight essays that foll…Read more
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64Closer kinships: Rortyan resources for animal rightsContemporary Political Theory 16 (1): 1-18. 2017.This article considers the extent to which the debate about animal rights can be enriched by Richard Rorty’s theory of rights. Although Rorty’s work has enjoyed a lot of scholarly attention, commentators have not considered the implications of his arguments for animals. Nor have theorists of animal rights engaged his approach to rights. This paper argues that Rorty’s thinking holds a number of attractions for proponents of animal rights. It also considers some of its drawbacks. It is further arg…Read more
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113Beyond misogyny and metaphor: Women in Nietzsche's middle periodJournal of the History of Philosophy 34 (2): 233-256. 1996.This article proposes a third way of reading Nietzsche's remarks on women, one that goes beyond misogyny and metaphor. Taking the depiction of women in the works of the middle period at face value shows that these works neither entirely demean women nor exclude them from the higher life. Nietzsche's middle period comprises HAH (1879-80, which includes "Assorted Opinions and Maxims" and "The Wanderer and His Shadow"), D (1881) and GS (1882). The works of this period do not disqualify women from f…Read more
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150The chief inducement? The idea of marriage as friendshipJournal of Applied Philosophy 18 (1). 2001.A combination of social forces has thrown marriage into question in westernised societies at the end of the millennium. This uncertainty creates space for new ways of thinking about marriage. In this context, we examine the idea of marriage as friendship. We trace its genealogy in the work of Mary Wollstonecraft, John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor and then subject it to critical scrutiny using some of Michel de Montaigne’s ideas. We ask how applic- able the ideal of higher friendship is to marr…Read more
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171Reviews : Richard Rorty, Contingency, Irony and Solidarity (Cambridge University Press, 1989)Thesis Eleven 25 (1): 170-172. 1990.
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University of Notre DameRegular Faculty
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Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Social and Political Philosophy |
Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality |