Charles Taylor is one of the great Canadian thinkers of the last century, and Prospect magazine has called him perhaps “the most important philosopher writing in English today.”
The author of countless articles and the groundbreaking Sources of the Self and The Malaise of Modernity, Taylor has also received the prestigious Kyoto and Templeton Prizes. As a philosophically committed social democrat, much of his work has been rooted in real world concerns.
He has been a candidate for the federal NDP and president of the Quebec NDP and, in 2007, was co-chair of the Bouchard-Taylor Commission on reasonable accommodation with regard to cultural differences in the province of Quebec.
In recognition of Taylor’s rich legacy of politically resonant scholarship, the Charles Taylor Prize for Excellence in Policy Research is awarded annually at the Broadbent Institute’s Progress Summit to a researcher whose work has made an important contribution to policy debates relevant to building a more socially just Canada.
Previous recipients of the Taylor Prize
- 2024 – Sheila Block
- 2023 – John Borrows
- 2022 – Greg Marchildon
- 2021 – Martha Friendly
- 2020 – Marjorie Griffin Cohen
- 2019 – Akwasi Owusu-Bempah
- 2017 – Daniel Weinstock
- 2016 – Leah Vosko
- 2015 – Charles Taylor