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Peter Murphy
Peter Murphy is Professor of Creative Arts and Social Aesthetics and the Head of the School of Creative Arts at James Cook University. His major research interests concern the natu...view morePeter Murphy is Professor of Creative Arts and Social Aesthetics and the Head of the School of Creative Arts at James Cook University. His major research interests concern the nature of creativity and the imagination. He is the author of The Collective Imagination (2012) and Civic Justice (2001), the co-author of Dialectic of Romanticism: A Critique of Modernism (2004), Creativity and the Global Knowledge Economy (2009), Global Creation (2010), and Imagination (2010), and the co-editor of Philosophical and Cultural Theories of Music (2010). The Collective Imagination was a Baker and Taylor YBP Library Services UK Core Title and US Core Title in 2012. Murphy, Marginson and Peter’s Imagination: Three Models of Imagination in the Age of the Knowledge was awarded an American Education Studies Association (AESA) Critics Choice Book Award in 2010. Murphy is Coordinating Editor of the social theory journal Thesis Eleven (Sage Publications) and is Chief Investigator with Professor Simon Marginson of the University of Melbourne on an Australian Research Council Discovery Project (2012-2014) Crucibles of creativity? Australian universities and path-breaking intellectual work.view less