J. M. Hinton

This article is about the philosopher. For the guitarist, see Michael Hinton (guitarist).

John Michael Elliott Hinton (July 4, 1923 - February 3, 2000^[1]) was a British philosopher. He was a lecturer at the University of Oxford from 1958 and a fellow of Worcester College, Oxford from 1960.^[1] He was Cowling Visiting Professor at Carleton College in 1978-79.^[2] He was previously a lecturer at Victoria University College.^[3]

Hinton is widely cited as the first modern proponent of the disjunctive theory of perception.^[4][5] This view is set out in his 1973 book Experiences: An Inquiry Into Some Ambiguities,^[6] and in some papers dating as far back as 1966.

Bibliography

• J. M. Hinton "Seeing and Causes", Philosophy, Oct 1966
• J. M. Hinton "Visual Experiences", Mind, Vol lxxvi, No 302, April 1967, pp.217-227
• J. M. Hinton (1967) "Experiences" Philosophical Quarterly 17 (66):1-13.
• J. Michael Hinton "Perception and Identification", Philosophical Review 76, October 1967, pp.421-435.
• I. C. Hinckfuss "J.M. Hinton on Visual Experiences" Mind 79 April 1970 pp.278-280.
• J. M.Hinton "A Reaction to Radical Philosophy", Radical Philosophy 2, Summer 1972
• J. M. Hinton "Visual Experiences: A Reply to I.C. Hinckfuss" Mind 82 (April 1973) pp.278-279.
• J. M. Hinton Experiences (1973), Clarendon Press, Oxford
• J. Michael Hinton "This is Visual Sensation" in Renford Bambrough (ed.) "Wisdom: Twelve Essays", Oxford Blackwell, 1974.
• J. M. Hinton "Phenomenological Specimenism", Analysis Vol. 40 No.1, Jan 1980, pp.37-41
• J. M. Hinton "Are They Class-names?", Philosophy 57, 1982, pp.27-50

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Oxford University Gazette, 24 February 2000: Obituaries - Worcester College". http://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/1999-00/weekly/240200/coll.htm#7Ref. Retrieved 2008-04-07. 
2. ^ "Cowling Visiting Professors". http://apps.carleton.edu/curricular/philosophy/cowling/. Retrieved 2010-03-16. 
3. ^ "Philosophy lecturer J.M. Hinton and Professor George Hughes". Victoria University of Wellington 1899 ~ 1999 A History. http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/BarVict-fig-BarVict268a.html. Retrieved 2008-06-06. 
4. ^ Alex Byrne and Heather Logue. Disjunctivism: Contemporary Readings. 
5. ^ Snowdon, Paul (1990). "The Objects of Perceptual Experience". Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volumes 64: 121–166 
6. ^ John Michael Hinton (1973). Experiences: An Inquiry Into Some Ambiguities. Clarendon Press. http://books.google.com/?id=iLTUAAAACAAJ. Retrieved 2008-04-07. 

External links

• A picture of Hinton when he was at Victoria

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Name	Hinton, J. M.
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Date of death	2000-02-03
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