Gregory Currie is Professor of Philosophy and Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Nottingham.
He 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 NZ gov't Research Funding criterion). 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 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.
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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 on narrative. In addition to providing a theory of the ways narrators function in the representations of stories, he argues for a special role for narrative in the generation of certain kinds of ideas which, as with ideas of magic and religion, have a status indeterminate between imagination and belief. He hopes to complete this in 2006.