Bibliographic record
Abstract
Charles Taylor is one of the most influential contemporary philosophers, arguably the most important living political philosopher writing in English. <italic>Taylor and Politics</italic> assesses Taylor’s thought and its relevance to contemporary political challenges, especially religion and secularity, multicultural diversity, political alienation and demands for greater democracy. This book outlines Taylor’s key concepts and highlights the substantive applications of his ideas. Taylor’s biography and education, and his forays into politics in Canada, is discussed, to provide context for the development of his ideas. Taylor’s interest in romanticism’s impact on our understanding of modernity is examined, as well as his contribution to how democracy is being understood in current times, especially against the backdrop of social groups seeking greater recognition in the political sphere. The book explores the substantial differences between Taylor’s conception of social imaginaries and that of Cornelius Castoriadis, and contrasts Taylor’s account of the political form of modernity with that of Claude Lefort. Furthermore, the book examines Taylor’s contribution to debates about religion and secularism, providing an explanation of Taylor’s important book on this subject, <italic>A Secular Age</italic>, and assessing the debates that the book has generated. Finally, the book explores Taylor’s work after <italic>A</italic> <italic>Secular Age</italic>, particularly his discussions on religious freedom, diversity and multiculturalism in Quebec, Canada, and the central role of language in social and political debate.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".