Heather Logue

Dr. Heather Logue is an Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of Leeds, affiliated with the School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science within the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures. She holds a BPhil and PhD in Philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh and MIT, respectively. Her research focuses on philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and feminist philosophy, with a particular emphasis on perception’s metaphysical and epistemological dimensions, as well as the metaphysics of gender. She has co-edited Purpose and Procedure in Philosophy of Perception (2021) and authored influential works like Gender Fictionalism (2022) and articles on Naive Realism and disjunctivism. Her teaching includes modules on feminist philosophy, epistemology, and philosophy of mind.

Her research explores themes such as the nature of perceptual experience, the relationship between perception and knowledge, and the metaphysical status of gender. Notable publications include critiques of representationalist theories of perception and defenses of Naive Realist accounts. She also engages with debates on aesthetic perception and color metaphysics.

Logue’s work bridges analytic philosophy with interdisciplinary methodologies, emphasizing the role of perceptual experience in epistemology and metaphysics. Her recent scholarship addresses challenges to Naive Realism posed by hallucinations and explores feminist critiques of gender’s ontological foundations.