John Michael Elliott Hinton (4 July 1923 – 3 February 2000)[1] was a British philosopher.
[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.