Charles Taylor (philosopher)

Charles Taylor CC GOQ FBA FRSC
Born	Charles Margrave Taylor (1931-11-05) November 5, 1931 (age 85) Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Alma mater	McGill University Balliol College, Oxford
Awards	Templeton Prize (2007) Kyoto Prize (2008) John W. Kluge Prize (2015) Berggruen Prize for Philosophy (2016)
Era	20th-century philosophy
School	Analytic, communitarianism
Institutions	All Souls College, Oxford McGill University Northwestern University
Main interests	Political philosophy Cosmopolitanism Secularism Religion Modernity
Influences Aristotle, Plato, Hegel, Marx, , Merleau-Ponty, Weber, Durkheim, Wittgenstein, M. Polanyi, Ricoeur, Heidegger, James, Dreyfus, Bell, Lasch, Lipovetsky
Influenced Honneth, Walzer, Sandel, Kompridis, Smith, Wilber

Charles Margrave Taylor CC GOQ FBA FRSC (born November 5, 1931) is a Canadian philosopher from Montreal, Quebec, and professor emeritus at McGill University best known for his contributions to political philosophy, the philosophy of social science, history of philosophy and intellectual history. This work has earned him the prestigious Kyoto Prize, the Templeton Prize, the Berggruen Prize for Philosophy, and the John W. Kluge Prize, in addition to widespread esteem among philosophers.

In 2007, Taylor served with Gérard Bouchard on the Bouchard-Taylor Commission on Reasonable accommodation with regard to cultural differences in the province of Quebec. He is a practising Roman Catholic.

Taylor attended Selwyn House School from 1941 to 1946 and began his undergraduate education at McGill University (B.A. in History in 1952). He continued his studies at the University of Oxford, first as a Rhodes Scholar at Balliol College (B.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics) in 1955, and then as a post-graduate (D.Phil. in 1961), under the supervision of Isaiah Berlin and G. E. M. Anscombe.