Fernando Castro Flórez (Plasencia, 1964) is a philosopher, aesthete and critic of Spanish art.

From his early years as a student, and later as a critic, he grew a passion for the thoughts of Friedrich Nietzsche, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Jacques Lacan or Franz Kafka, among others. He has developed his teaching work at the Institute of Aesthetics and Theory of Arts, the Autonomous University of Madrid, the Contemporary Culture of the Ortega y Gasset Institute and the Reina Sofia Museum, of which he is a board member. He teaches doctorate courses, classes and conferences in numerous universities and museums, both national and international.1​

He has written regularly in cultural sections of newspapers such as El País, Diario 16, El Independiente, El Sol, El Mundo, and he has been working as an art critic at ABC Cultural for more than ten years, collaborating on several cultural magazines. He has curated more than a hundred exhibitions and numerous individual and collective exhibitions in museums around the world1​, as well as collaborative works such as Domingo Sánchez Blanco from Salamanca.2 His son is the Spanish philosopher Ernesto Castro Córdoba, a professor of aesthetics at the Complutense University of Madrid.

He teaches an Aesthetics seminar at the UAM and has edited and translated several works, including those of Walter Benjamin. He is also an art critic at Cultural ABC.