is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oslo. He was born in Devon, England, of Scottish parents in 1932, studied at the University of Edinburgh and at University College London, and since 1961 has been a resident of Norway. He has been Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oslo (1990-96) and before that at the University of Trondheim (1975-85), and has been visiting professor at the University of California (Berkeley and San Diego) and the University of Stockholm. From 1971 to 2002 he was Editor of the international philosophy journal Inquiry. He has translated several of Kierkegaard’s works for Penguin Classics and is author of Mental Images-A Defence (1971, 2002), Kierkegaard (The Arguments of the Philosophers, 1982), Human Consciousness (1990), Kierkegaard: A Biography (2001), and On the Public (2006). Professor Hannay is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and a Member of both the Royal Norwegian Scientific Society of Science and Letters and the Norwe¬gian Academy of Science and Letters.