A Secular Age

This blog is a dialogue space for PHIL 396, the spring 2011 senior seminar in the Philosophy Department at Calvin College, led by James K.A. Smith . We are engaging Charles Taylor's tome, A Secular Age , with a view to discerning the "making of a philosopher"--considering how Taylor's earlier work in philosophy of action, philosophy of social science, phenomenology, and hermeneutics enabled him to write the unique sort of book that isThis blog will be an arena for sharing thoughts and reactions, debating issues and interpretations, and hopefully also a venue to share the fruit of student research.