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

Three dudes podcasting around a table
editorial manager frame with "my reviewer number" listed as "2" for six different submissions
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Email message. From "Tea from IntechOpen" to "Michael Bennett McNulty." Subject: "Respected Researcher - Approaches to Teaching and Learning Mathematics - open for submissions." First line of the email reads "Dear Respected Researcher,"
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Actor Ed Harris in Westworld speaking, with a caption of "Don't lecture me, you fucking can opener."
Man with a noose around his neck chuckling and saying "First time?"
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screenshot of email from Steve Fuller to the HOPOS listserv with content that reads "Scholasticism on overdrive"
Magneto perfection meme: on the left are three images, of Mariah Carey's "All I want for Christmas is you," Dean Martin's "Let it snow," and Mannheim Steamroller's "Christmas." On the right are captions "I want traditional christmas music," "I said traditional christmas music," and "perfection"
website text reading "Appointments in Philosophy: New; GRLpGpAG has been appointed as Mr. at GRLpGpAG (1) starting in 2026. Doctorate: 1, GRLpGpAG. Current position: Mr. at GRLpGpAG. AOS: 555. 1967 Category: Junior/Other Posted: November 9, 2025"
Podcast episode description from The Daily, titled “The U.S. Keeps Killing Venezuelans on Boats. Is That Legal?”
Forearm with a fresh tattoo of an illustrated elephant.
Person on a stage standing at a podium and speaking. Projected yellow text appears on the wall beside them.
Outdoor view of a large arena with people walking around the outside
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”
Black and white typewritten German text.
Typewritten letter, with text reading: "The long afternoons will be devoted to algorithms. And the evenings? To peace and socialism, what else!"
Cover of a book with various birds on it. Title reads “what it’s like to be a bird”.
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.’”
Cover of a book with the title “Kant and the Systematicity of the Sciences”
Signal message that reads "We are currently clean on OPSEC"
Signal message reading "We are currently clean on OPSEC."
Screenshot of Reuters' story webpage, with headline "DNA testing firm 23andMe files for bankruptcy as demand dries up"
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”
"Aliens" meme. Guy with wild hair gesturing, with "Aliens" written at the bottom. Immanuel Kant's face badly pasted on top.
An astronaut saying "wait Pv~P is true?" and another astronaut holding a gun to the other saying "Always Has Been"
"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."
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"
Hank Hill from the show, King of the Hill, exasperated and rubbing his head, with the caption: "Dang it Bobby!"
"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"
Weather website describing the temperature at Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport as –17 and ‘feels like’ temperature of –32.
Black-and-white photo of Wilfrid Sellars with "Nepobaby" written on the top.
Whiteboard with rudimentary drawing of a fish, above which is written “Wesley Salmon”.
Meme of clown putting on make up. Clown is labeled as "Karl Popper," and the progressive stages of putting on make up are labeled as follows: "the problem of induction is insurmountable," "hypotheses are 'corroborated,' not confirmed, by the evidence," "we prefer hypotheses that are highly corroborated," and "preferring highly corroborated hypotheses isn't induction"
Guy in the corner at a party meme. Caption reads "They don't know the meaning of a proposition is its method of verification".
Two buttons meme. Button 1: "do things that are moderately stressful," button 2: "make memes." Anguished decision maker labeled "my avoidant self"
Is this a butterfly meme, with an image of Neurath’s isotope replacing the butterfly and a caption “is this a meme?”
Goose Chase meme, with goose asking "what verifies the verification principle?" in the first frame, and then the goose chasing after someone asking "WHAT VERIFIES THE VERIFICATION PRINCIPLE MOTHERFUCKER?" in the second.
Page of a book, reading “The problem with sending messages was that people responded to them, which meant one had to write more messages in reply.”
Courtroom sketch of Rudy Giuliani aggressively gesturing.
Text message reading “If you had to say what the two or three biggest problems in philosophy of science were in 1955, what would you say?”
Two books, The Rise of Scientific Philosophy by Hans Reichenbach and The Validation of Scientific Theories by Philipp Frank, on a wood table.
Drake "Hotline Bling" Meme. Drake, labeled as "Structural Realists," disapproves of "∀x(Fx→Gx)" and approves of "∃φ∀x(φx→Gx)."
People standing and talking amongst various academic research posters.
A person in a conference room gesturing toward a projected slide.
A person in a conference room standing by a projected slide.
A person in a conference room gesturing at a slide depicting helicopters chasing horses.
A person standing by and gesturing towards a projected slide in a conference room.
A person speaking to an audience beside a projected slide.
A person standing at a dais, speaking to an audience, beside a projected slide.
The face of Paul Feyerabend projected in a conference room.
Person standing and speaking beside a projected slide in a conference room.
Person speaking beside a projected slide in a conference room.
Person speaking and gesturing beside a projected slide of average temperatures since 1000 CE.
Smiling people sitting around a dinner table.
A person in sunglasses speaking at a dais beside a projected slide of a plane dropping flame retardant in front of a crowd.