Dr Joe Higgins

Assistant Professor

School: Communities and Education

- 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

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Key Publications

Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
Adolescents from Low Socio-economic Backgrounds or with High Social Media Usage are Prone to Negative Wellbeing: Can ‘Resonant Education’ Help?, Higgins, J. 12 May 2026, In: Ethics and Education
Mystical or Mundane? ‘Genius’ and the Phenomenology of Creativity in Sport, Higgins, J. 15 May 2026, Palgrave Handbook of Creativity in Sport, Cham, Switzerland, Palgrave Macmillan
The Ripeness of Old Age: an Enactive Perspective on Wellbeing in Later Life, Higgins, J. 1 Jun 2025, In: Phenomenology and Mind
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