A conversation with Charles Taylor...

...at Harvard, led by Michael Rosen.   Taylor is one of those thinkers who enjoys a better reputation outside Anglophone philosophy, than within:  partly it is a matter of his philosophical and intellectual sympathies (e.g., his interest in Hegel, his antipathy to naturalism), and partly a matter of the quality of his arguments when he engaged on territory familiar to analytic philosophers.  Not quite thirty years ago, we philosophy PhD students at Michigan prevailed upon the skeptical faculty to invite Taylor as the "Nelson philosopher in residence," and watching this conversation, with Taylor's open and engaging manner, reminded me of exactly how he was with we students back then.