Kathleen Higgins

American Professor of Philosophy Kathleen Marie HigginsBorn1954 (age 71–72)SpouseRobert C. SolomonAcademic backgroundEducationYale University (PhD)ThesisThe Philosophical Significance of Nietzsche's Use of Fiction in "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" (1982)Doctoral advisorKarsten HarriesAcademic workEra21st-century philosophyRegionWestern philosophySchool or traditionContinentalInstitutionsUniversity of Texas, AustinMain interestsNietzsche, aesthetics, philosophy of music Kathleen Marie Higgins (born 1954) is an American professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin where she has been teaching for over thirty years. She specializes in aesthetics, philosophy of music, nineteenth and twentieth-century continental philosophy, and philosophy of emotion. Education and career Higgins earned her B.A. in music from the University of Missouri–Kansas City and completed her graduate work in philosophy at Yale University, receiving her M.A., M.Phil, and PhD. Professor Higgins has taught at the University of California, Riverside, and she is a regular visiting professor at the University of Auckland. She has held appointments as Resident Scholar at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagi