Publications – Lucy McDonald

‘Romantic Domination’, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, forthcoming
‘The Ethics of Catfishing’, in The Ethics of Online Dating, eds. L. Brunning and N. McKeever, Bloomsbury, forthcoming
‘Power and Personal Relationships’, Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Personal Relationships (M. Betzler and S. Stroud, eds.), Oxford University Press, forthcoming (draft here)
‘Flirting’, in Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Sex (C. Chambers, B.D. Earp and L. Watson eds.), Routledge, 2022

‘Cat-Calls, Compliments, and Coercion’, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 2022 [You can read a more accessible summary of this paper here]
‘Feminism and Gender’, with Clare Chambers, Issues in Political Theory (R. Jubb and P. Tomlin eds.), Oxford University Press, 2026

‘Dehumanising Speech’, for Harmful Speech and Contestation (M. Popa-Wyatt ed.), Palgrave Macmillan, 2024 (preprint here),
‘Shaming, Blaming, and Responsibility’, Journal of Moral Philosophy, 2021

‘Making Sense of Emoji’, Philosophy, 2024
‘Context Collapse Online’, Conversations Online (P. Connolly, S. Goldberg, and J. Saul, eds.) Oxford University Press, 2025 (preprint here) [You can read a more accessible summary of this paper here]
‘Please Like This Paper’, Philosophy, 2021 (Winner of Royal Institute of Philosophy essay prize, 2021)
A reply to Wendy Xin’s ‘Censorship Bubbles Vs Hate Bubbles’, Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective, 2024

‘Language in Social Construction’, with Rae Langton, Oxford Handbook of Social Ontology (S. Haslanger, B. Epstein, H.B. Schmid, and S. Collins, eds.), Oxford University Press, forthcoming
‘Communicative Gaslighting‘, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2025
‘Two-Faced Compliments’, Analysis, 2022
‘Reimagining Illocutionary Force’, The Philosophical Quarterly, 2022
‘Your Word Against Mine: The Power of Uptake’, Synthese, 2021