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==Education and career== |
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Tirell received her bachelor's in philosophy from the [[University of Wisconsin-Madison]] in 1980 and went on to receive her doctorate in philosophy (with a dissertation focused on metaphor) from the [[University of Pittsburgh]] in 1986.<ref name=acv/> After receiving her doctorate, she accepted an appointment as an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]], receiving Associate Professorship status in 1994. In 1993, Tirrell accepted an appointment as Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the [[University of Massachusetts, Boston]], before being promoted to Associate Professor - a position she has occupied since.<ref name=acv/> Tirrell also served a |
Tirell received her bachelor's in philosophy from the [[University of Wisconsin-Madison]] in 1980 and went on to receive her doctorate in philosophy (with a dissertation focused on metaphor) from the [[University of Pittsburgh]] in 1986 under the direction of [[Robert Brandom]].<ref name=acv/> After receiving her doctorate, she accepted an appointment as an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]], receiving tenure and Associate Professorship status in 1994. In 1993, Tirrell accepted an appointment as Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the [[University of Massachusetts, Boston]], before being promoted to Associate Professor - a position she has occupied ever since.<ref name=acv/> Tirrell also served a year as Visiting Associate Professor of Philosophy in 2004-2005 at [[Wellesley College]].<ref name=acv/> |
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==Research areas and publications== |
==Research areas and publications== |
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Tirrell has written a large number of peer-reviewed papers, contributed to a number of anthologies, and written a number of encyclopedia articles. Much of the body of Tirrell's work focuses on hate speech, especially the practical effects of linguistic practices in shaping the social conditions that make genocide and other significant acts of oppression possible.<ref name=apacsw/> |
Tirrell has written a large number of peer-reviewed papers, contributed to a number of anthologies, and written a number of encyclopedia articles. Much of the body of Tirrell's work focuses on hate speech, especially the practical effects of linguistic practices in shaping the social conditions that make genocide and other significant acts of oppression possible.<ref name=apacsw/> Tirrell's hate speech research is distinctive in its emphasis on the inferential power of the racial epithet, holding that its power to license socially damaging inferences is more significant and more insidious) than the performative action of hurling it.<ref name=apacsw/> Tirrell uses the tools of inferential role semantics to explain what is at issue between those who think certain deeply derogatory terms (especially racist derogations that enact oppression) should be banned (she calls them ‘Absolutists’), and those who think the terms can safely be used by members of the groups who are targeted by such words (she calls these ‘Reclaimers’). As Tirrell's research progressed, she began to integrate her inferentialist approach with speech act theory, and Wittgenstein’s basic concept of a language game.<ref name=apacsw/> |
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Tirrell's research started in the United States but later branched in to other regions of the world, now focusing on Rwanda and the surrounding region.<ref name=apacsw/> Focusing more on 'speech as action' than she previously had, and working on explaining the action-engendering power of certain deeply derogatory terms. and this course of research led her towards studying the role of changing speech practices before and during the [[Rwandan Genocide]] (which then led her to participate in discussions with prosecutors at the [[International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda]] in Tanzania.)<ref name=apacsw/> In related work, Tirell has argued that apology, although by itself a woefully insufficient means of making amends, is in fact a prerequisite to doing so - and that reparations and humanitarian aid, unless coupled with a apology, result in a situation where true reconciliation has not occurred.<ref name=reconc>{{cite book|last=editors|first=Alice MacLachlan, Allen Speight,|title=Justice, responsibility and reconciliation in the wake of conflict|year=2013|publisher=Springer|location=Dordrecht|isbn=978-9400752009}}</ref> |
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Tirrell is also noteworthy for the staunchness of her claims that English has an inherent maleness to it, one that must be altered before a competing view of the world can be put forward - an argument she goes in to detail in in her 1993 essay “Definition and Power: Toward Authority Without Privilege.” Tirrell has also suggested that the anti-pornography views of [[ |
Tirrell is also noteworthy for the staunchness of her claims that English has an inherent maleness to it, one that must be altered before a competing view of the world can be put forward - an argument she goes in to detail in in her 1993 essay “Definition and Power: Toward Authority Without Privilege.” Tirrell has also suggested that the anti-pornography views of [[Catharine MacKinnon]] are so vehement that they problematically deprive women of the ability to articulate their own experiences, and thus must be revised in a way that would allow the involved women to articulate their own experiences.<ref name=femlang>{{cite book|last=Saul|first=Jennifer|title=Feminist Philosophy of Language; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy|year=2010|publisher=Stanford University|url=http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminism-language/}}</ref> Tirrell has also written extensively on issues of metaphor.<ref name="ReimerCamp2009">{{cite journal|title=The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language|last1=Reimer|first1=Marga|last2=Camp|first2=Elisabeth|year=2009|doi=10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199552238.003.0033}}</ref> |
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==References== |
==References== |
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Lynne Tirrell is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Boston,[1] where she also teaches in Women’s Studies. Much of the body of her work focuses on hate speech, especially the practical effects of linguistic practices in shaping the social conditions that make genocide and other significant acts of oppression possible.[2] Her research started in the United States but quickly branched in to other regions of the world, and now focuses on Rwanda and the surrounding region.[2] From 2014 to 2017, she will also serve as the chair of the APA Committee on Public Philosophy.[2]
Education and career
Tirell received her bachelor's in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1980 and went on to receive her doctorate in philosophy (with a dissertation focused on metaphor) from the University of Pittsburgh in 1986 under the direction of Robert Brandom.[1] After receiving her doctorate, she accepted an appointment as an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, receiving tenure and Associate Professorship status in 1994. In 1993, Tirrell accepted an appointment as Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, before being promoted to Associate Professor - a position she has occupied ever since.[1] Tirrell also served a year as Visiting Associate Professor of Philosophy in 2004-2005 at Wellesley College.[1]
Research areas and publications
Tirrell has written a large number of peer-reviewed papers, contributed to a number of anthologies, and written a number of encyclopedia articles. Much of the body of Tirrell's work focuses on hate speech, especially the practical effects of linguistic practices in shaping the social conditions that make genocide and other significant acts of oppression possible.[2] Tirrell's hate speech research is distinctive in its emphasis on the inferential power of the racial epithet, holding that its power to license socially damaging inferences is more significant and more insidious) than the performative action of hurling it.[2] Tirrell uses the tools of inferential role semantics to explain what is at issue between those who think certain deeply derogatory terms (especially racist derogations that enact oppression) should be banned (she calls them ‘Absolutists’), and those who think the terms can safely be used by members of the groups who are targeted by such words (she calls these ‘Reclaimers’). As Tirrell's research progressed, she began to integrate her inferentialist approach with speech act theory, and Wittgenstein’s basic concept of a language game.[2]
Tirrell's research started in the United States but later branched in to other regions of the world, now focusing on Rwanda and the surrounding region.[2] Focusing more on 'speech as action' than she previously had, and working on explaining the action-engendering power of certain deeply derogatory terms. and this course of research led her towards studying the role of changing speech practices before and during the Rwandan Genocide (which then led her to participate in discussions with prosecutors at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Tanzania.)[2] In related work, Tirell has argued that apology, although by itself a woefully insufficient means of making amends, is in fact a prerequisite to doing so - and that reparations and humanitarian aid, unless coupled with a apology, result in a situation where true reconciliation has not occurred.[3]
Tirrell is also noteworthy for the staunchness of her claims that English has an inherent maleness to it, one that must be altered before a competing view of the world can be put forward - an argument she goes in to detail in in her 1993 essay “Definition and Power: Toward Authority Without Privilege.” Tirrell has also suggested that the anti-pornography views of Catharine MacKinnon are so vehement that they problematically deprive women of the ability to articulate their own experiences, and thus must be revised in a way that would allow the involved women to articulate their own experiences.[4] Tirrell has also written extensively on issues of metaphor.[5]
References
- ^ a b c d "Lynne Tirrell Philosophy". University of Massachusetts, Boston. Retrieved 25 March 2014.
- ^ a b c d e f g h DesAutels, Peggy. "Lynne Tirrell". American Philosophical Association. Retrieved 25 March 2014.
- ^ editors, Alice MacLachlan, Allen Speight, (2013). Justice, responsibility and reconciliation in the wake of conflict. Dordrecht: Springer. ISBN 978-9400752009.
{{cite book}}:|last=has generic name (help)CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Saul, Jennifer (2010). Feminist Philosophy of Language; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford University.
- ^ Reimer, Marga; Camp, Elisabeth (2009). "The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language". doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199552238.003.0033.
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