I taught this course nearly a decade ago. I put the pages
here to possibly help someone beginning to read Charles Taylor's work.
What you want are the links at the bottom.

Charles Taylor

Philosophy & the Human Sciences: Philosophical Papers, vol. 2
Philosophical Arguments

See the Malaspina resources on Taylor:  

Who is Charles Taylor?

Charles Taylor currently teaches at Northwestern University . For many years he was a professor of Social & Political Theory at Oxford University. He is the author of many books, including a standard work on Hegel. Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity is a famous book appealing to a general academic readership. You can read this short press release from Jan. 96 about Taylor receiving an award for Catholic scholarship: Dayton. Three features make Taylor an attractive choice for non-majors.

First, Taylor writes much of his work for a general academic audience, instead of for a highly specialized audience of philosophy professors or graduate students. Academic philosophic writing is highly allusive.Typically an author will refer to many works to explain an idea. Few readers will have read all the texts the author alludes to, but unless a reader is familiar with the core texts that the author refers to, she is not likely to get much from the essay, or to even be much interested in it. Majoring in philosophy is largely a process of critically reading core texts that historically define the discipline. Although Taylor does allude to both primary & secondary works, his allusions are illustrative. He does not allude to works merely to show his erudition.
The second attraction of Taylor's work has to do with his choice of popular & nontechnical topics. In the works we will read, Taylor examines questions about social philosophy and about contemporary American political theory.
Taylor is a major contemporary philosopher.

#1: "Overcoming Epistemology"
#2: "The Validity of Transcendental Arguments"
#3: "Explanation & Practical Reason" (T. Kuhn)
#4: "Heidegger & Wittgenstein"
#5: "The Importance of Herder" (the linguistic turn; origins of language)
#6: "Heidegger, Language, & Ecology" (perhaps the best essay in this
           collection)
#7: "Irreducibly Social Goods" (liberal social theory)
#8: skip
#9: "To Follow a Rule" (Wittgenstein & pragmatic epistemology)
#10: "Cross-Purposes: The Liberal--Communitarian Debate" (Bentham
             vs. Ed. Burke)
#11: "Invoking Civil Society" (11, 13 & 12 are related; I preferred this
             order)
#12: "The Politics of Recognition" (perhaps the 2nd best essay here)
#13: "Liberal Politics & the Public Sphere

#1: "Interpretation & the Sciences of Man"
#3: "Social Theory as Practice"
#4: "Understanding & Ethnocentricity"
#6: "Foucault on Freedom & Truth"
#10: "Legitimation Crisis?"

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