J. M. Hinton (philosopher)

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J. M. Hinton (4 July 1923 – 3 February 2000) was a British philosopher. He taught at the University of Oxford from 1958 and became a fellow of Worcester College, Oxford, in 1960. He was the Cowling Visiting Professor at Carleton College in 1978–79 and had previously lectured at Victoria University College. Hinton is known as an early modern proponent of the disjunctive theory of perception, a view he explained in his 1973 book Experiences: An Inquiry Into Some Ambiguities and in several papers from the 1960s.