Imaginative Minds: An Interdisciplinary Symposium

30 April-1 May 2004

The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH

Gregory Currie

Gregory 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. Before joining the Nottingham department he was Professor of Philosophy and Head of the School of Arts at Flinders University of South Australia. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities and a Past President of the Australasian Association of Philosophy.

He is an editor of Mind and Language, 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 of Advanced Study, Australian National University, The University of Maryland and The University of St Andrews.

Current research projects include:

• The Imagination: conceptual issues concerning the relation of imagination to belief and desire, to play and pretence, to fantasy and supposition; issues in cognitive science concerning mental simulation, evolution, development and psychopathology.
• Narrative: fictional and nonfictional narratives and the nature of documentary; narrative and time; understanding narrative, the role of narrative in magical, religious and delusional thinking.

Greg Currie’s most recent book is Recreative Minds: Imagination in Philosophy and Psychology, Oxford University press, 2002. His Arts and Minds is due out with Oxford in November of 2004. A further book, provisionally entitled Narrative Thinking, is also due to appear with Oxford, probably in 2006.