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.

“Epistemic Aspects of Evil: The Three Monkeys meet The Atrocity Paradigm” in Evil, Political Violence and Forgiveness: Essays in Honor of Claudia Card; Andrea Veltman and Kathryn Norlock, eds. (Lexington Books, Rowman and Littlefield 2009).

"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