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. He published An Ontology of Art in 1989 and The Nature of Fiction in 1990. Since the late 1980s Currie has published six research monographs; a collection of articles, Arts and Mind (
OUP 2004); and nearly 100 research articles on topics in the philosophy of art and the philosophy of mind and cognition. Currie is widely considered to be one of the 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
Dean of the Faculty of Arts (2004–07) and then as Director of Research for the School of Humanities (2010–13).[6] Before 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]
Pictures and their Surfaces. In: The Pleasure of Pictures: Pictorial Experience and Aesthetic Appreciation, eds. Pelletier & Voltolini, Routledge (2019), pp. 249–269
(with Anna Ichino)
Imagination and Make-Believe. In: The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics (3rd edition), eds. Gaut & Lopes, Routledge (2013), pp. 320–329
Literature and Truthfulness. In: Rationis Defensor: Essays in Honour of Colin Cheyne, ed. J. Maclaurin, Springer (2012), pp. 23–31
Why Irony is Pretence. In: The Architecture of the Imagination: New Essays on Pretence, Possibility, and Fiction, ed. S. Nichols, OUP (2006), pp. 111–133
Anne Brontë and the Uses of the Imagination. In: Contemporary Debates in Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art, ed. M. Kieran, Blackwell (2006), pp. 209–221. Reprinted in: Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art (second edition), eds. Lamarque & Olsen, Wiley-Blackwell (2019), pp. 393–401
Interpretation in Art. In: The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics, ed. J. Levinson, OUP (2005), pp. 291–306
Cognitivism. In: A Companion to Film Theory, eds. Miller & Stam, Wiley-Blackwell (2003), pp. 105–122. Revised and reprinted as '
Cognitive Film Theory' in Arts and Minds (2004: ch. 8).
Characters and Contingency. Dialectica 57 (2003), pp. 137–148. Reprinted in Arts and Minds (2004: ch. 2).
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. He published An Ontology of Art in 1989 and The Nature of Fiction in 1990. Since the late 1980s Currie has published six research monographs; a collection of articles, Arts and Mind (
OUP 2004); and nearly 100 research articles on topics in the philosophy of art and the philosophy of mind and cognition. Currie is widely considered to be one of the 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
Dean of the Faculty of Arts (2004–07) and then as Director of Research for the School of Humanities (2010–13).[6] Before 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]
Pictures and their Surfaces. In: The Pleasure of Pictures: Pictorial Experience and Aesthetic Appreciation, eds. Pelletier & Voltolini, Routledge (2019), pp. 249–269
(with Anna Ichino)
Imagination and Make-Believe. In: The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics (3rd edition), eds. Gaut & Lopes, Routledge (2013), pp. 320–329
Literature and Truthfulness. In: Rationis Defensor: Essays in Honour of Colin Cheyne, ed. J. Maclaurin, Springer (2012), pp. 23–31
Why Irony is Pretence. In: The Architecture of the Imagination: New Essays on Pretence, Possibility, and Fiction, ed. S. Nichols, OUP (2006), pp. 111–133
Anne Brontë and the Uses of the Imagination. In: Contemporary Debates in Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art, ed. M. Kieran, Blackwell (2006), pp. 209–221. Reprinted in: Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art (second edition), eds. Lamarque & Olsen, Wiley-Blackwell (2019), pp. 393–401
Interpretation in Art. In: The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics, ed. J. Levinson, OUP (2005), pp. 291–306
Cognitivism. In: A Companion to Film Theory, eds. Miller & Stam, Wiley-Blackwell (2003), pp. 105–122. Revised and reprinted as '
Cognitive Film Theory' in Arts and Minds (2004: ch. 8).
Characters and Contingency. Dialectica 57 (2003), pp. 137–148. Reprinted in Arts and Minds (2004: ch. 2).