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Bennett McNulty
@mbmcnulty.bsky.social
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Associate Prof of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota, Residential Fellow at the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science – Philosophy, Running, Classical Guitar, Baking, History – He/Him
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Real @nytpitchbot.bsky.social energy here…
Podcast episode description from The Daily, titled “The U.S. Keeps Killing Venezuelans on Boats. Is That Legal?”
September 25, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Nah, you can't do that. That's Ohio State's thing.
August 28, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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New tat substantially increases my #HOPOS cred
Forearm with a fresh tattoo of an illustrated elephant.
August 6, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Person on a stage standing at a podium and speaking. Projected yellow text appears on the wall beside them.
July 24, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Going to @philipcball.bsky.social’s Plenary at @ishpssb2025.bsky.social #ishpssb2025
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July 24, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Today I’m presenting my talk, “Reflections on Crisis Science” at @ishpssb2025.bsky.social, 14:30–15:00. Come and hear about my take on philosophical accounts of science in times of crisis and reflections on conservation biology! #ishpssb2025 #philsci
Presentation slide depicting a raging forest fire. White text over the top reads, “Bennett McNulty (mcnu0074@umn.edu) Reflections on Crisis Science ISHPSSB 2025 ICBAS, Universidade do Porto July 23rd, 2025”
July 23, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Reichenbach in a 1935 letter to Hempel on Popper’s _Logik der Forschung_. Describes the book as disregarding all problems with shocking naïveté and containing several substantial mathematical errors. Love spicy letters. 🌶️
Black and white typewritten German text.
June 23, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Fun in the archive: Bob Cohen signs Adolf Grünbaum up for the mailing list of a theocratic political party. 😂
June 20, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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More fun stuff from the archives. Alfred Blumberg in May 20th, 1961 letter to Herbert Feigl: "The long afternoons will be devoted to algorithms. And the evenings? To peace and socialism, what else!"
Typewritten letter, with text reading: "The long afternoons will be devoted to algorithms. And the evenings? To peace and socialism, what else!"
June 12, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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I didn’t know Thomas Nagel wrote kids books
Cover of a book with various birds on it. Title reads “what it’s like to be a bird”.
May 31, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Look at this gem I found today in the departmental archives. Photo of Paul Meehl, May Brodbeck, John Hospers, Herbert Feigl, and Wilfred Sellars, the editorial team for the then-new journal, Philosophical Studies.
Black-and-white image of five people in an office looking at pages on a desk. Caption below the image reads: “PHILOSOPHY PROFESSORS HERBERT FEIGL AND WILFRID SELLARS (seated, right) look over manuscripts submitted for their magazine Philosophical Studies, with assistant editors Paul Meehl, psychology, May Brodbeck and John Hospers, philosophy. Published by University Press, the periodical was first issued in January and will appear six times a year. According to the edi-tors, Philosophical Studies is the only philosophy magazine devoted entirely to analytical philosophy. It is designed to fill ‘the urgent and growing need for space devoted to quick publication of timely contributions to the various areas of analytic philosophy.’”
May 21, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Look what came in the mail today 👀 #HOPOS #philsky #philsci #philosophy
Cover of a book with the title “Kant and the Systematicity of the Sciences” Title page of a book chapter, titled “Kant’s Aethereal Hammer”
April 22, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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babe wake up. the new liar paradox just dropped
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March 27, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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me, accidentally hitting 'reply-all':
Signal message reading "We are currently clean on OPSEC."
March 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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I wonder what they are going to do with all that genetic data that they have 🤔🤔🤔
Screenshot of Reuters' story webpage, with headline "DNA testing firm 23andMe files for bankruptcy as demand dries up"
March 24, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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☀️ Good Morning! ☀️

Today I'm chairing a session at the virtual Central meeting of the APA @apaphilosophy.bsky.social on Decolonizing Early Modern Philosophy. Excited to hear from Dwight Lewis and Maria Mejia and to discuss work still to be done for historians of philosophy! #philsky #philosophy
Image of a conference program that reads as follows: "FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 10:00–11:40 A.M. DIVISIONAL PROGRAM 2.8.A Invited Panel: Decolonizing Early Modern Philosophy Chair: Bennett McNulty (University of Minnesota) Panelists: Dwight K. Lewis, Jr. (University of Minnesota) “Access and the Canon” Maria Mejia (Elon University) “Decolonizing Gestures and Moments of Jeopardy”
February 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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"Aliens" meme. Guy with wild hair gesturing, with "Aliens" written at the bottom. Immanuel Kant's face badly pasted on top.
February 20, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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meme-based pedagogy
An astronaut saying "wait Pv~P is true?" and another astronaut holding a gun to the other saying "Always Has Been"
February 18, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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"Don't make me tap the sign" Simpsons meme. A bus driver says "don't make me tap the sign." The sign reads "The original sin of capitalism is simple robbery."
February 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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I just needed to change my examples for teaching the conditional in logic and my students all got it.
Lecture slide with text on a white background and a picture of Kendrick Lamar. Slide reads as follows: "Conditional Review Only If Kendrick Lamar is going to the afterparty only if Drake is not. So in what situation is Kendrick Lamar going to the party? So if you go to the afterparty, and Kendrick Lamar is there, what do you know? So if Kendrick Lamar is going to the afterparty, then Drake is not"
February 4, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Hank Hill from the show, King of the Hill, exasperated and rubbing his head, with the caption: "Dang it Bobby!"
January 31, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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"That's illegal people can't do that" Meme. Frame 1: Penguin on the phone asks "nine one one what is your emergency" Frame 2: The penguin says "what do you mean the executive has seized the power of the purse" Frame 3: "thats illegal people cant do that"
January 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Welcome back for the start of Spring semester!🥶🥶🥶
Weather website describing the temperature at Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport as –17 and ‘feels like’ temperature of –32.
January 21, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Black-and-white photo of Wilfrid Sellars with "Nepobaby" written on the top.
January 15, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Relevant student art in Philsci course
Whiteboard with rudimentary drawing of a fish, above which is written “Wesley Salmon”.
December 19, 2024 at 1:47 PM