Professor Gregory Currie FBA

The philosophy of the visual and narrative arts and their relations to human cognition and its evolution

Elected 2019

Fellow type: UK Fellow
Year elected: 2019
Sections: Philosophy
Website: https://www.york.ac.uk/philosophy/staff/greg-currie/

Greg Currie is a professor of philosophy at the University of York and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He is Executive Editor of Mind & Language. His The Nature of Fiction and other works have been influential in shaping the contemporary debate about the place of imagination in the architecture of the mind. His recent book Imagining and Knowing is a (somewhat) sceptical examination of the idea that fictions are an important source of learning. His current project is a naturalistic theory of aesthetic pleasure and value which argues for a reductionist metaphysics of aesthetic properties, a close association between aesthetic sense and social cognition, and a deep connection between human aesthetic interests and the evolution of our species. He also works on the philosophy of film, filmic and literary adaptation, irony in words and pictures, and imagination and psychopathology.

Current post

Professor of Philosophy, University of York

Past appointments

University of Nottingham Director of Research in Humanities

2010 - 2013

University of Nottingham Dean of Faculty of Arts

2004 - 2007

University of Nottingham Professor of Philosophy

2000 - 2013

University of Otago Professor of Philosophy

1990 - 1994

Publications

Imagining and Knowing: The Shape of Fiction

Gregory Currie - Published in 2020 by Oxford University Press

Narratives and Narrators: A Philosophy of Stories

Gregory Currie - Published in 2010 by Oxford University Press

Arts and Minds

Gregory Currie - Published in 2004 by Oxford University Press

Recreative Minds: Imagination in Philosophy and Psychology

Gregory Currie and Ian Ravenscroft - Published in 2002 by Clarendon Press

Image and Mind: Film, Philosophy and Cognitive Science

Gregory Currie - Published in 1995 by Cambridge University Press

The Nature of Fiction

Gregory Currie - Published in 1990 by Cambridge University Press

Visually attending to fictional things

Greg Currie - Published in 2018 by Oxford University Press

From "Perceptual Imagination and Perceptual Memory", edited by Fiona Macpherson and Fabian Dorsch

Pictures and their surfaces

Greg Currie - Published in 2018 by Routledge

From "The Pleasure of Pictures: Pictorial Experience and Aesthetic Appreciation", edited by Jérôme Pelletier, Alberto Voltolini

Aesthetic sense and social cognition: a story from the Early Stone Age

Greg Currie, Xuanqi Zhu - Published by Synthese

Volume 198

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