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Gregory Currie

Disciplines:
aesthetics
philosophy of action/philosophy of film
fiction/philosophy of fiction

Summary

British-Australian philosopher who has made contributions to the ontology of art, the philosophy of fiction and imagination, and philosophy of film.

Core Contribution

The Nature of Fiction: fiction involves make-believe — the author invites the reader to imagine the content as if it were real. Image and Mind: an account of the nature of film experience and the role of imagination in film. Mimesis as Make-Believe: extends the make-believe account to all fiction.

Notable Works & Achievements

The Nature of Fiction

Image and Mind

Narratives and Narrators

Historical Influences

Kendall Walton Bertrand Russell

Intellectual Lineage

Analytic Aesthetics

Contemporaries & Peers

Kendall Walton Noël Carroll

Minds Influenced

Philosophy of Film Imagination Studies

Intellectual Posterity

Philosophy of FictionMimesis

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