Name Gregory Currie | ||
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Education University of California, Berkeley, London School of Economics and Political Science Books Narratives and Narrators, Image and mind, The nature of fiction, Recreative minds, An ontology of art Similar People John Worrall, Matthew Kieran, Alan Musgrave, Imre Lakatos | ||
Gregory currie marks on images in painting photography and cinematography
Gregory "Greg" Currie is Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at the University of York.
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- Gregory currie marks on images in painting photography and cinematography
- Gregory currie q a marks on images in painting photography and cinematography
- Life and work
- Current research
- Books
- Some recent papers
- References
Gregory currie q a marks on images in painting photography and cinematography
Life and work
Currie was educated at the London School of Economics and the University of California, Berkeley. His first posts were in Australia, at the University of Sydney, and in New Zealand, at the University of Otago (Otago's Philosophy Department was declared the best academic department in New Zealand based on the New Zealand government Research Funding criterion). Until September 2013 he was Professor of Philosophy and Director of Research in Humanities at the University of Nottingham. Before joining the Nottingham department he was Professor of Philosophy and Head of the School of Arts at Flinders University, Adelaide. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities and a Past President of the Australasian Association of Philosophy.
Currie is an editor of Mind and Language, an Associate Editor of the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, a Past Fellow of St John's College, Oxford, and has held visiting positions at Clare Hall, Cambridge, the London School of Economics, the Institute for Advanced Study, Australian National University, the University of Maryland, College Park and the University of St Andrews.
Current research
His research currently focuses on the arts, imagination, the nature of delusions, and the role of narrative in our thinking. He is working on a book focusing on the value of literature.