Research

Selected publications

Many of these contain live links to help you have access to the articles, but if you have trouble, you can email me for a copy. Or visit my Academia.edu page, which has downloads.

“Transitional Justice in Post-Genocide Rwanda: An Integrative Approach.” 2014.

In Theorizing Transitional Justice, Claudio Corradetti, Nir Eisikovits, and Jack

Rotondi, eds. (London: Ashgate,) forthcoming.

“Studying Genocide: A Pragmatist Approach to Action-Engendering Discourse.” 2013.

In Pragmatism, Law, and Language, Routledge Studies in Contemporary

Philosophy, Graham Hubbs and Douglas Lind, eds. (NY: Routledge,) pp. 152-169.

“Apologizing for Atrocity: Rwanda and Recognition.” 2013. Justice, Responsibility, and Reconciliation in the Wake of Conflict, Alice MacLachlan and Allen Speight, eds., NY: Springer, pp. 159-182.

“Genocidal Language Games.” 2012. Speech and Harm: Controversies Over Free Speech, Ishani Maitra and Mary Kate McGowan, eds., Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.174-221.

“Forgiving Grave Wrongs,” 2010. With Alisa L. Carse. Putting Forgiveness In Perspective, Christopher Allers and Marieke Smit, ed. (Amsterdam: Rodopi Press), pp. 43-65.

“Epistemic Aspects of Evil: The Three Monkeys meet The Atrocity Paradigm.” 2009. Evil, Political Violence and Forgiveness: Essays in Honor of Claudia Card, Andrea Veltman and Kathryn Norlock, eds., Lanham MD: Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield, pp. 35-51.

"Pornographic Subordination: How Pornography Silences Women." 1999. Feminist Ethics and Politics, Claudia Card, ed. (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1999), pp. 226-243. pdf

"Derogatory Terms: Racism, Sexism and the Inferential Role Theory of Meaning," 1999. Language and Liberation: Feminism, Philosophy and Language, Kelly Oliver and Christina Hendricks, eds., Albany NY: SUNY Press, pp. 41-79. Tirrell-1999-DerogatoryTerms.pdf

"Aesthetic Derogation: Hate Speech, Pornography, and Aesthetic Contexts," 1997. Aesthetics and Ethics: Essays at the Intersection, Jerrold Levinson, ed., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 283-314.

"Language and Power," 1997. A Companion to Feminist Philosophy, Alison M. Jaggar and Iris M. Young, editors, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, pp. 139-152.

"Sexual Dualism and Women's Self-Creation: On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Reading Nietzsche for Feminists." 1994. Nietzsche and the Feminine Peter Burgard, ed. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, pp. 158-182.

Reprinted in Feminist Interpretations of Friedrich Nietzsche, Kelly Oliver and Marilyn Pearsall, eds. (University Park, PA: Penn State Press, 1998) pp. 199-224.

"Definition and Power: Toward Authority Without Privilege," 1993. Hypatia, Vol. 8 No.4 (Fall) 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," 1991. Philosophical Investigations, 14:2 (April 1991), pp. 143-154.

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

Reprinted in Toni Morrison's Fiction: Contemporary Criticism, David L. Middleton, ed. (NY: Garland Publishing, 1996) p. 3-25.

"Extending: The Structure of Metaphor," 1989. Nous XXIII (March), pp.17-34.

NEWS ANALYSIS:

“In Memoriam: Annette Baier,” NewAPPS, invited guest post, 5 November 2012:

http://www.newappsblog.com/2012/11/in-memoriam-annette-baier-by-lynne-tirrell.html

Limbaugh Can’t Stop Insulting Women, Even When Pretending to be Contrite,

AlterNet, March 5, 2012.

http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/825459/