John Michael Elliott Hinton (4 July 1923 – 3 February 2000) was a British philosopher. He was a lecturer at the University of Oxford from 1958 and a fellow of

Worcester College, Oxford Worcester College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. The college was founded in 1714 by the benefaction of Sir Thomas Cookes, 2nd Baronet (1648–1701) of Norgrove, Worcestershire, whose coat of arms w ...

, from 1960. He was Cowling Visiting Professor at

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in 1978-79. He was previously a lecturer at

Victoria University College Victoria University of Wellington ( mi, Te Herenga Waka) is a university in Wellington, New Zealand. It was established in 1897 by Act of Parliament, and was a constituent college of the University of New Zealand. The university is well know ...

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

Bibliography

*J. M. Hinton "Seeing and Causes", ''

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'', Oct 1966 *J. M. Hinton "Visual Experiences", ''

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'', 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", ''

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'' 76, October 1967, pp. 421–435. *I. C. Hinckfuss "J.M. Hinton on Visual Experiences" Mind 79 April 1970 pp. 278–280. *J. M.Hinto
"A Reaction to Radical Philosophy"
Radical Philosophy 2, Summer 1972, p. 24 *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

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(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 *Paul Snowdon, "Hinton and the Origins of Disjunctivism", in "Disjunctivism: Perception, Action, Knowledge" ed. by Adrian Haddock and Fiona Macpherson, Oxford: OUP, 2008, pp. 35–56.

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A picture of Hinton when he was at Victoria
1923 births 2000 deaths Fellows of Worcester College, Oxford Academic staff of Victoria University of Wellington 20th-century British philosophers {{UK-philosopher-stub