Professor Charles Taylor FBA

Philosophy
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1979
Subjects
Philosophy, Politics

Current post

Professor of Philosophy, McGill University

Past appointments

McGill University, Montreal Professor of Political Science

1982 -

University of Oxford Chichele Professor of Political Theory

1976 - 1981

McGill University, Montreal Professor of Philosophy

1973 - 1976

McGill University, Montreal Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor of Political Science

1961 - 1976

Publications

Hegel 1975

Sources of the self 1989

The Ethics of authenticty 1992

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