- Year elected
- 2019
- Subjects
- Philosophy
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 Imagining and Knowing (forthcoming) 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
Past appointments
University of Nottingham Director of Research in Humanities
Sep 2010 - Sep 2013
University of Nottingham Dean of Faculty of Arts
Sep 2004 - Jul 2007
University of Nottingham Professor of Philosophy
Sep 2000 - Sep 2013
University of Otago Professor of Philosophy
Aug 1990 - Aug 1994
Publications
Imagining and Knowing: The Shape of Fiction
by Greg Currie - Published by Oxford University Press
Forthcoming
Aesthetic sense and social cognition: a story from the Early Stone Age
by Greg Currie, Xuanqi Zhu
Synthese, forthcoming