Supported by the Royal Institute of Philosophy 

Lucy recently provided an overdue philosophical model of flirting, in The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Sex and Sexuality: 

"Flirting, I argue, is a conversational game involving two moves; push moves, which involve presupposing an intimacy that does not yet exist, and pull moves, which involve playfully pretending to block those presuppositions. As flirters perform rallies of these moves, they gradually increase the intimacy between them through a process known by philosophers of language as accommodation. This model illuminates a common social ritual and it can be marshalled against abuses of the notion of flirting by perpetrators of harassment and assault." 

Lucy is Lecturer in philosophy at King's College London. She works in ethics, philosophy of language, and feminist philosophy. Before that she was a Research Fellow in philosophy at St John's College, University of Cambridge. You can read more about her work at http://lucymcdonald.co.uk/. 

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