Gordon Finlayson

{{short description|British philosopher}}

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|region = Western philosophy

|era = 21st-century philosophy

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|name = Gordon Finlayson

|honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRSA|size=100%}}

|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1964|9|9}}

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|school_tradition = Continental

| institutions = University of Sussex

|main_interests = Kantian philosophy

| thesis_title = Structure and Genesis of Hegel's Critique of the "Ought"

| thesis_url = https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.386959

| thesis_year = 1994

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| alma_mater = {{ubl | University of St Andrews | University of Essex}}

|influences = {{hlist | Immanuel Kant | G. W. F. Hegel | John Rawls | Jürgen Habermas}}

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|website = {{URL|https://jamesgordonfinlayson.com}}

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James Gordon Finlayson {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRSA}} (born 9 September 1964) is a British philosopher. He is reader in philosophy and director of the Centre for Social and Political Thought at the University of Sussex. Finlayson is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a former chair of the Society for European Philosophy (2007–2011).{{cite web |title=Gordon Finlayson |url=https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/people/gordon-finlayson |website=Center for European Studies at Harvard University |accessdate=8 December 2018 |language=en |date=8 December 2018}}