Kathleen Higgins

Kathleen Marie Higgins
Born1954 (age 71–72)
SpouseRobert C. Solomon
Academic background
EducationYale University (PhD)
ThesisThe Philosophical Significance of Nietzsche's Use of Fiction in "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" (1982)
Doctoral advisorKarsten Harries
Academic work
Era21st-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
School or traditionContinental
InstitutionsUniversity of Texas, Austin
Main 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.