taylorian

adj

1. Of or relating to the English architect Sir Robert Taylor (1714–1788) or the Taylor Institution he founded at Oxford University for the study of European languages.
2. Of or relating to Taylorism.
3. Of or relating to the Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor (born 1931).

   “The problem is basically that any mechanical process of cause and effect may be reinterpreted as a "goal-directed" process along Taylorian lines by simply supposing that whatever happens to be its outcome has all along been the "end" toward which the events comprising the process have been "directed".”

   “Later, constructing a notable Taylorian matrix, he argues that Eastonian economic-model theories of political life ‘always end up either laughable, or begging the major question, or both’ (p. 76).”

   “The formation of neighbourhoods within a particular school population may be seen as a counterpart to a Taylorian notion of "distinctness" and survivance.”

   “The U.N. report, while not a philosophical document, nevertheless points to facets of identity-formation that indicate a need to modify the Taylorian account.”

   “The first one hundred pages of the book struck me as very Taylorian. Ratzinger’s description of the believer and the unbeliever standing side-by-side whispering “perhaps” into each other’s ears sounds not unlike Charles Taylor’s suggestion that we can’t help but live our faith “in a condition of doubt and uncertainty.””