Dr Lorna Finlayson
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Email
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Location
5B.109, Colchester Campus
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Academic support hours
Tuesday 11am Friday 2pm
Profile
Biography
Lorna took both her BA and PhD in Philosophy at Kings College, Cambridge, where she was then appointed to a four-year junior research fellowship, also acting as an affiliated lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy. She is the author of The Political Is Political: conformity and the illusion of dissent in contemporary political philosophy (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015), and An Introduction to Feminism (CUP 2016). She has interests in political philosophy and its methodology, critical theory and theories of ideology, feminist philosophy, philosophy of social science, and Arabic philosophy. As of September 2015, she is Lecturer in Philosophy at the School of Philosophy and Art History.
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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Dangerous Ideas: Essays and Manifestos as Social Criticism Capstone (CS301)
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Texts in Practical Philosophy (PY434)
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Modern Social and Political Thought (PY437)
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Contemporary Critical Theory (PY948)
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Dissertation: Western Marxism (PY956)
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Dissertation: Social and Political Thought (PY970)
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Dissertation: Continental Philosophy (PY981)
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Dissertation: Critical Social Theory (PY983)
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Dissertation: MA Philosophy (PY984)
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Dissertation: Philosophy and Art History (PY985)
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Critical Theory (PY456)
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Western Marxism and Translation Dissertation (PY912)
Previous supervision
Degree subject: Philosophy
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 11/5/2023
Publications
Journal articles (13)
Finlayson, L., (2024). ON LESSER EVILISM. NEW LEFT REVIEW (145), 59-64
Finlayson, L., (2021). Moving up without losing your way: The ethical costs of upward mobility, by JenniferMortonPrinceton, NJ: Princeton University press, 2019. 192pp. ISBN: 978鈥�0691179230, Pbk $17.95. European Journal of Philosophy. 29 (2), 524-527
Finlayson, L., (2020). . Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume. 94 (1), 115-139
Finlayson, L., (2020). . New Left Review. 123, 133-141
Finlayson, L., (2020). In the Shadow of Justice: Postwar Liberalism and the Remaking of Political Philosophy. NEW LEFT REVIEW (123), 133-141
Finlayson, L., (2019). The problem is not just the economy, stupid, it's economic 鈥榮cience鈥�. The Political Quarterly. 90 (2), 335-337
Finlayson, L., (2019). What to Do with Post-Truth. Nordic Wittgenstein Review. 2019-Jul (Special Issue), 63-79
Finlayson, L., (2018). . Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. 43 (4), 775-795
Finlayson, L., (2018). AN INTRODUCTION TO THE INTRODUCTION. Think. 17 (49), 23-31
Finlayson, L., (2017). . European Journal of Political Theory. 16 (3), 264-282
Finlayson, L., (2015). . Constellations. 22 (1), 135-146
Finlayson, L., (2014). . Hypatia. 29 (4), 774-798
Finlayson, L., (2013). Preachers and propagandists: political theory and thestatus quo. Journal of Political Ideologies. 18 (3), 281-298
Books (3)
Finlayson, L., (2016). . Cambridge University Press. 9781107121041
Finlayson, L., (2016). An Introduction to Feminism. Cambridge University Press. 9781107121041
Finlayson, L., (2015). . Rowman & Littlefield International, Ltd.. 9781783482870
Book chapters (2)
Finlayson, L., (2019). 鈥淚鈥檓 Not With Stupid鈥�. In: Media Ethics, Free Speech, and the Requirements of Democracy. Routledge. 203- 218
Finlayson, L., (2019). Feminist Philosophy and Real Politics. In: The Cambridge History of Philosophy, 1945鈥�2015. Cambridge University Press. 310- 320. 9781107173033
Grants and funding
2025
A Critical Philosophy of the Contemporary University
Independent Social Research Foundation
Contact
Academic support hours:
Tuesday 11am Friday 2pm
