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Dr Joe Higgins

Assistant Professor

Department: Social Work, Education and Community Wellbeing

- Assistant Professor in Education
(also a Local Leader in Mathematics Education via the Great North MathsHub)

- Previous experience as a Teacher of Mathematics & Philosophy in Secondary Schools and a Lecturer in Philosophy (University of Stirling and University of St. Andrews)

- Research interests encompass Philosophy of Education, Pedagogy of Mathematics, Phenomenology, Cognitive Science, Mental Health, and Philosophy of Sport

Joe Higgins

Key Publications

  • Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
  • Inside the Canny Valley: Recognition and the Existential Modality of Being Human, Higgins, J. 29 Sep 2023, In: Itinerari. Annuario di Ricerche Filosofiche
  • Understanding Selfhood to Elucidate the Phenomenology of Mindfulness, Higgins, J. 1 Apr 2022, In: Philosophia
  • Cognising With Others in the We-Mode: a Defence of ‘First-Person Plural’ Social Cognition, Higgins, J. 1 Dec 2021, In: Review of Philosophy and Psychology
  • The ‘We’ in ‘Me’: An Account of Minimal Relational Selfhood, Higgins, J. 1 Jul 2020, In: Topoi
  • What makes a sporting ‘superhuman’?, Higgins, J. 7 Sep 2020, Conference Proceedings of ‘Philosophy and Sports: Theory vs. Praxis’ , Portugese Foundation for Sports
  • Giving Flesh to Culture: An Enactivist Interpretation of Haslanger, Higgins, J. 2 Jan 2019, In: Australasian Philosophical Review
  • Biosocial selfhood: overcoming the ‘body-social problem’ within the individuation of the human self, Higgins, J. 1 Jul 2018, In: Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
  • Why Roger Federer is a GOAT: an account of sporting genius, Higgins, J. 2 Sep 2018, In: Journal of the Philosophy of Sport
  • Embodied Mind – Ensocialled Body: Navigating Bodily and Social Processes within Accounts of Human Cognitive Agency, Higgins, J. 9 Aug 2017, In: Phenomenology and Mind

Qualifications

  • Education PGDipEd July 31 2020
  • PhD June 30 2017
  • MSc August 31 2012
  • MA (Hons) July 31 2011
  • Associate Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy AFHEA 2016

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