ABOUT ME
My name is Tyra Lennie and I am a doctoral candidate at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.
My research focuses on legal, political, and early modern feminist philosophy. In my dissertation, I advance an original account of what goes wrong in central cases of discrimination in a way that centers the testimony of victims and builds in relational and feminist concerns. My work bridges the gap between existing accounts of wrongful discrimination and foundational work on relational autonomy. Currently, I am also deeply interested in Mary Astell’s work on friendship and Lucrezia Marinella’s theory of beauty. I have broad teaching interests in political philosophy, legal philosophy, and bioethics. My research is funded by a SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council) CGS-D.
You can find my recent publication on Astellian friendship in Feminist Philosophy Quarterly here and here. You can find my recent publication on Rawlsian Anti-Capitalist Environmental Justice in Ethics, Politics, & Society here and here.
You can contact me by email at lenniet@mcmaster.ca.
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