Lynne Tirrell

Selected Publications

“Genocidal Language Games,” in Speech and Harm, edited by Mary Kate McGowan and Ishani Maitra, Oxford University Press, forthcoming, Spring 2009.

“The Three Monkeys meet The Atrocity Paradigm: epistemic reconsiderations of foreseeable, intolerable harm,” Metaphilosophy: Special Issue on the Philosophy of Claudia Card, Andrea Veltman and Kathryn Norlock, eds. (forthcoming, fall 2008).

"Derogatory Terms: Racism, Sexism and the Inferential Role Theory of Meaning," Language and Liberation: Feminism, Philosophy and Language, Kelly Oliver and Christina Hendricks, eds., (Albany NY: SUNY Press, 1999)

"Definition and Power: Toward Authority Without Privilege," Hypatia, Vol. 8 No.4 (Fall 1993) pp.1-34.

"Reductive and Non-Reductive Simile Theories of Metaphor," The Journal of Philosophy, vol. LXXXVIII, No. 7 (July 1991) pp.337-358.

"Seeing Metaphor as Seeing-as: Davidson's Positive View of Metaphor," Philosophical Investigations, 14:2 (April 1991), pp. 143-154.

"Storytelling and Moral Agency," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 48:2 (Spring 1990), pp.116-126.

Courses taught

The Language of Genocide, Speech Acts, Feminism and Philosophy, Philosophy of Art, Literary Theory/Critical Theory , Nietzsche, Moral and Social Problems, Introduction to Philosophy

Contact Information

Office: Wheatley 05-014
Phone: 617-287-6545
Email: lynne.tirrell@umb.edu