| Region: | Western philosophy |
| Era: | 21st-century philosophy |
| Gordon Finlayson | |
| Birth Date: | 1964 9, df=y |
| 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 |
James Gordon Finlayson (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).[1]