Gregory Currie

Currie was educated at the John Ruskin Grammar School in Surrey, at the London School of Economics (LSE), where he took the BSc (Econ), and at the University of California, Berkeley, as a Fulbright Scholar.[3] Currie completed his PhD in Philosophy at the LSE in 1978, with a thesis examining the objectivism of Frege and Popper,[4] where he worked with Imre Lakatos. Following Lakatos's death in 1974, Currie and his LSE colleague, John Worrall, co-edited two volumes of Lakatos's philosophical papers, The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes, Vol. 1 and Mathematics, Science and Epistemology, Vol. 2 (both published in 1978).

Currie started his career as a scholar of Frege, publishing Frege: An Introduction to his Philosophy in 1982, but his interests shifted gradually to aesthetics and the philosophy of mind, publishing An Ontology of Art in 1989 and The Nature of Fiction in 1990. Since the late 1980s, Currie has published 6 research monographs, a collection of articles (Arts and Mind, 2004, OUP), and nearly 100 research articles on topics in the philosophy of art and the philosophy of mind and cognition. Now, Currie is widely considered to be one of the best and most influential living Anglophone philosophers of art post-1945.[5]

Currie is Professor of Philosophy at the University of York, serving as Head of the Department of Philosophy from 2013 to 2016. Before moving to York in 2013, he was a Professor at the University of Nottingham (2000–13). At Nottingham, Currie served as both the Dean of the Faculty of Arts (2004–07) and Director of Research for the School of Humanities (2010–13).[6] Prior to his return to the UK, Currie was Professor and Head of the School of Arts at Flinders University, Adelaide. His first posts were in Australia, at the University of Sydney, and in New Zealand, at the University of Otago.[7]

Currie is Executive Editor of Mind & Language[2] and a member of the editorial boards for both the Australasian Journal of Philosophy[8] and the British Journal of Aesthetics.[9] He is a Past President of the Australasian Association of Philosophy, a past Fellow of St John's College, Oxford, and he has held visiting positions at Clare Hall, Cambridge, the LSE, the Institute for Advanced Study, Australian National University, the University of Maryland, College Park, the University of St Andrews, and the EHESS. Currie was a member of the Philosophy sub-panel for REF 2014.[3][10]

In July 2019, Currie was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.[11] He is also a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities (FAHA).

• Personal website
• University of York profile
• British Academy profile
• Leverhulme Trust Project: Learning from Fiction: A Philosophical and Psychological Study
• Interview with Hans Maes: Extract from Conversations on Art and Aesthetics (2017, OUP)
• Interview with Nigel Warburton: Philosophy Bites: 'Gregory Currie on the Philosophy of Film'