About Gordon Finlayson
Born 1964. Gordon Finlayson is a university teacher.
James Gordon Finlayson (born 9 September 1964) is a British philosopher. He was a reader in philosophy and a former 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).
Books Habermas: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2005 Habermas and Rawls: Disputing the Political, Fabian Freyenhagen and Gordon Finlayson, Routledge, 2010 The Habermas-Rawls Debate, Columbia University Press, 2019
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