Alastair Hannay (born 1932) is Professor emeritus at the University of Oslo. Educated in Edinburgh and London he continues the Scottish tradition of subjective idealism. In Mental Images (1971) he argues that visual images like physical portraits resemble visible objects. As a kind of sensation a mental image has material properties of its own which allow it to picture. He thus contradicts Gilbert Ryle and Daniel Dennett.
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