Alastair Hannay

Alastair Hannay
Born	1932
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western Philosophy
School	Continental
Main interests	Ethics, history of philosophy, existentialism
Influences Søren Kierkegaard

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. Hannay has translated Søren Kierkegaard, and written an intellectual biography and a monograph about his philosophy. Under Hannay's direction (managing editor 1962-71, editor 1971-2002), Inquiry grew into a widely read philosophical journal. In Human Consciousness (1990), Hannay reviews contemporary theories of human consciousness while maintaining a characteristic conservatism. Hannay argues that consciousness and the first-person point of view cannot be analysed or displaced by scientific materialism, nor can they be explained functionally, a view close to that of Thomas Reid, William Hamilton, and Ferrier.

Bibliography

Books

• Alastair Hannay, and Gordon D. Marino (editors), The Cambridge Companion to Kierkegaard, Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998, ISBN 0-521-47719-0.
• -------- Human Consciousness (Problems of Philosophy Their Past and Present)", Routledge (November 1990), ISBN 0-415-03299-7.
• --------, Kierkegaard (The Arguments of the Philosophers), Routledge; New Edition (December 1999), ISBN 0-415-06365-5.
• --------, Kierkegaard: A Biography, Cambridge University Press, New edition 2003, ISBN 0-521-53181-0
• --------, Kierkegaard and Philosophy: Selected Essays, London; New York: Routledge, paperback 2006. (E-book version)
• --------, and Bruce H. Kirmmse, Niels Jorgen Cappelorn, George Pattison, Jon Stewart (editors), Søren Kierkegaard (author), Kierkegaard's Journals and Notebooks: Volume I: Journals AA-DD, Princeton University Press, 2006, ISBN 0-691-09222-2.
• --------, Mental Images: A Defence (Muirhead Library of Philosophy), Humanities Press/Routledge (1971, repr. 2002), ISBN 0-04-100030-7.
• --------, On the Public, Routledge; 1 edition, (July 13, 2005), ISBN 0-415-32792-X.
• -------- and Andrew Feenberg (editors), Technology and the Politics of Knowledge (Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Technology), Indiana University Press (May 1995), ISBN 0-253-20940-4.

Translations

• Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or, Penguin Books, ISBN 0-14-044577-3.
• Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling, Penguin Books, ISBN 0-14-044449-1.
• Søren Kierkegaard, Journals and Papers: A Selection,ISBN 0-14-044589-7.
• Søren Kierkegaard, A Literary Review, Penguin Books, ISBN 0-14-044801-2.
• Søren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death, Penguin Books, ISBN 0-14-044533-1.
• Søren Kierkegaard, "Concluding Unscientific Postscript", Cambridge UP, ISBN 978-0-521-88247-7.
• Søren Kierkegaard, "The Concept of Anxiety", Liveright Publishing Corporation/W.W. Norton, ISBN 978-0-87140-719-1

Essays

• Hannay, Alastair, "Translating Kierkegaard", in J. Lippitt and G. Pattison (eds.), "The Oxford Handbook of Kierkegaard", Oxford UP, 2013, ISBN 978-0-19-960130-1.
• --------, “Kierkegaard: the Pathologist,” in Enrahonar, 29, 1998, pp. 109–114.
• --------, “Kierkegaardian Despair and the Irascible Soul,” in Kierkegaard Studies – Yearbook, 1997, pp. 51–69.
• –––––––––, “Basic Despair in the Sickness Unto Death,” in Kierkegaard Studies-Yearbook, 1996, pp. 15–32.
• --------, “Paradigmatic Despair and the Quest for a Kierkegaardian Anthropology,” in Kierkegaard Studies-Yearbook, 1996, pp. 149–163.
• –––––––––, "Conscious Episodes and Ceteris Paribus", The Monist, 78:4, 1995, pp. 447-463.
• --------, "Consciousness and the Experience of Freedom," in John Searle and His Critics, (Philosophers and their Critics) by Ernest Lepore (Editor), Walter Gulick (Editor), Wiley-Blackwell (April 15, 1993) ISBN 0-631-18702-2 , ISBN 978-0-631-18702-8
• --------, "To See a Mental Image," in Mind, April 1973, pp. 161–182.
• --------, "Wollheim and Seeing Black on White As A Picture," in British Journal of Aesthetics, 10, 1970, pp. 107–118.

Online articles

• Being Something on Hermeneutics and Communication in Kierkegaard After All
• Kierkegaard the Pathologist

Online books

• Kierkegaard and Philosophy: Selected Essays (via Google Books)

Online review

• On Søren Kierkegaard: Dialogue, Polemics, Lost Intimacy, and Time by Edward F. Mooney, Ashgate, 2007, ISBN 0-7546-5822-8

See also

• The Oxford Companion to Philosophy