Professor Gregory Currie FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2019
- Subjects
- Philosophy
- Sections
- Philosophy
Summary
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
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
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Dr Wolfgang Künne FBA
Metaphysics, philosophy of language and of logic; the beginnings of analytical philosophy in Prague, Jena and Cambridge, and the beginnings of phenomenology in Halle and Göttingen
Professor Adrian Moore FBA
History of philosophy (especially Kant and Wittgenstein); metaphysics; philosophy of mathematics; philosophy of language; ethics; and philosophy of religion.
