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Gordon Finlayson

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#11287

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PhD Philosophy University of Sussex
Masters Philosophy University of Sussex
Bachelors Philosophy University of Sussex

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According to Wikipedia, James Gordon Finlayson 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 .

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Habermas: A Very Short Introduction (2005) (298)
Modernity and Morality in Habermas's Discourse Ethics (2000) (242)
Habermas's moral cognitivism and the Frege-Geach challenge (2005) (215)
The theory of ideology and the ideology of theory: Habermas Contra Adorno (2003) (215)
Where the Right Gets in: On Rawls’s Criticism of Habermas’s Conception of Legitimacy (2016) (213)
The Persistence of Normative Questions in Habermas's Theory of Communicative Action (2013) (212)
Mental Health Act (2007) (87)
Adorno on the Ethical and the Ineffable (2002) (76)
“Bare Life” and Politics in Agamben's Reading of Aristotle (2010) (39)
Habermas and Rawls: disputing the political (2011) (24)
Hegel, Adorno and the Origins of Immanent Criticism1 (2014) (19)
The Habermas-Rawls Debate (2018) (19)
Morality and Critical Theory: On the Normative Problem of Frankfurt School Social Criticism (2009) (16)
Conflict and Reconciliation in Hegel's Theory of the Tragic (1999) (11)
What are ‘universalizable interests’? (2002) (11)
The artwork and the promesse du bonheur in Adorno (2015) (10)
Introduction: The Habermas-Rawls Dispute: Analysis and Re-evaluation (2010) (9)
Political Abuse of Psychiatry with a Special Focus on the USSR (1987) (6)
On Not Being Silent in the Darkness: Adorno's Singular Apophaticism* (2011) (5)
The Habermas Rawls dispute Redivivus (2007) (2)
No proviso: Habermas on Rawls, religion and public reason: (2018) (2)
The Question of Praxis in Adorno’s Critical Theory (2016) (1)
1. Habermas and Frankfurt School critical theory (2005) (1)
Is Migration Good For You? A Psychiatric and Historical Perspective (2016) (1)
3. The pragmatic meaning programme (2005) (1)
[Review] Logi Gunnarson (2000) Making moral sense: beyond Habermas and Gauthier (2002) (1)
List of referees (1986) (0)
Critical Theory and the Concept of Social Pathology Conference : The Centre for Social and Political Thought, University of Sussex, Date: September 2017 Introduction (2019) (0)
The Philosophy of Habermas (2005) (0)
8. Politics, democracy, and law (2005) (0)
Pass mark for MRCPsych examinations (2006) (0)
Hegel and the Frankfurt school (2017) (0)
Realizing Philosophy: Marx, Lukács and the Frankfurt School (2018) (0)
To the Things Themselves Again (2013) (0)
6. Discourse ethics I: the discourse theory of morality (2005) (0)
7. Discourse ethics II: ethical discourse and the political turn (2005) (0)
5. Habermas's theory of modernity (2005) (0)
8. RELIGION WITHIN THE BOUNDS OF PUBLIC REASON ALONE (2019) (0)
Women and the standpoint of concrete others: from the criticism of discourse ethics to feminist social criticism (2013) (0)
To the things themselves again: philosophical observations on what things are and why they matter (2013) (0)
Recent books of interest (2004) (0)
[Review] Paul Gorner (2000) Twentieth century German philosophy (2002) (0)
5. HABERMAS’S “RECONCILIATION THROUGH THE PUBLIC USE OF REASON” (2019) (0)
9. Germany, Europe, and post-national citizenship (2005) (0)
4. RAWLS’S POLITICAL LIBERALISM (2019) (0)
On Kantians and Pragmatists: Kenneth Baynes's Habermas (2017) (0)
Writing Philosophy Essays (2015) (0)
Sublime Failures: The Ethics of Kant and Sade (review) (2004) (0)
Beyond the Antigone Complex a Reply to Jay Bernstein (1997) (0)
The Habermas-Rawls Dispute Redivivus (2007) (0)
2. Habermas's new approach to social theory (2005) (0)
7. “REASONABLE’ VERSUS ‘TRUE”: HABERMAS’S REPLY TO RAWLS’S “REPLY” (2019) (0)
Making Moral Sense (Book) (2002) (0)
6. RAWLS’S “REPLY TO HABERMAS” (2019) (0)
INTRODUCTION: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (2019) (0)
A Frankfurter in Königsberg: Prolegomenon to any Future non-metaphysical Kant (2020) (0)
A critical notice of Adorno and Existence (2017) (0)
Adorno's Metaphysics of Moral Solidarity in the Moment of its Fall (2020) (0)
Book Reviews (2002) (0)
Review of 'Habermas' by Kenneth Baynes (2018) (0)
4. The programme of social theory (2005) (0)
Happy Birthday Jürgen Habermas (2019) (0)
[Review] Fred Rush, ed. (2005) The Cambridge companion to critical theory (2005) (0)
3. HABERMAS’S BETWEEN FACTS AND NORMS (2019) (0)
Women and the standpoint of concrete others (2013) (0)
1. TWO NONRIVAL THEORIES OF JUSTICE (2019) (0)
What not to learn from devolution (2007) (0)
Depression in younger people. (2009) (0)
On wandering: Exile, migration and other questions in critical theory (2021) (0)

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