Lucy McDonald

Publications

Journal Articles

  1. ‘Reimagining Illocutionary Force’, The Philosophical Quarterly, forthcoming
  2. ‘Cat-Calls, Compliments, and Coercion’, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, forthcoming
  3. ‘Please Like This Paper’, Philosophy, 2021 (Joint winner of Royal Institute of Philosophy essay prize, 2020)
  4. ‘Your Word Against Mine: The Power of Uptake’, Synthese, 2021
  5. ‘Shaming, Blaming, and Responsibility’, Journal of Moral Philosophy, 2021

Book Chapters

  1. ‘Flirting’, in Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Sex (C. Chambers, B.D. Earp and L. Watson, eds.), forthcoming
  2. ‘Reading is Fundamental’ (about the act of ‘throwing shade’), in RuPaul’s Drag Race and Philosophy, Open Court, 2019

Public Writing

  1. ‘Death by a Thousand Cat Calls’, Public Ethics Blog, Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace, 2021
  2. ‘Blame Without Shame’, The Times Literary Supplement, 2021

Book Reviews

  1. Review of An Intersectional Feminist Theory of Moral Responsibility by Michelle Ciurria, Journal of Moral Philosophy, forthcoming*

Work in Progress

  1. A paper about compliments (in review)
  2. A paper about hate speech (in review)
  3. A paper about dehumanising speech
  4. A paper about intimacy
  5. A paper about group hearers
  6. ‘Context Collapse Online’, for Conversations Online, edited by P. Connolly, S. Goldberg, and J. Saul
  7. ‘Language in Social Construction’, with Rae Langton, for Oxford Handbook of Social Ontology, edited by S. Collins, B. Epstein, H.B. Schmid, and S. Haslanger
  8. A review of The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century by Amia Srinivasan, for The Philosophical Quarterly
  9. A review of When Bad Thinking Happens to Good People by Steven Nadler and Lawrence Shapiro and Bad Beliefs: Why they happen to good people by Neil Levy for the Times Literary Supplement