Bennett McNulty

Bennett McNulty

@mbmcnulty.bsky.social

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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Unicorn Riot
@unicornriot.bsky.social

Musician, carpenter and labor organizer Emmett Doyle spoke to Unicorn Riot about being one of the 15 Minnesotans who were federally charged with conspiracy over their organizing earlier this year against ICE’s deadly Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis.

Bennett McNulty
@mbmcnulty.bsky.social

Following up on the announcement of President Cunningham’s draconian cuts of $225 million from UMN’s budget, administration has released a clarifying statement of principles guiding the necessary restructuring. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/we-...

mcsweeneys.netWe Are Not a “School”—We Are a Hospital System with a Football Team“At our core, we are devoted to learning. Specifically, we want to learn how to extract as much value as possible from everyone and everything we interact wi...

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Sander Verhaegh
@sanderverhaegh.bsky.social

Is US analytic philosophy a product of McCarthyism?
 In this blog ⬇️, I return to the archival material I studied for my book (departmental records, correspondence, newspapers, personnel files) and argue that the answer is ‘no’. Blog dailynous.com/2026/09/29/a... Book academic.oup.com/book/63149

dailynous.comAnalytic Philosophy and McCarthyism: A New Look (guest post) - Daily NousTo what extent is the “the story about the analytic turn” in philosophy a story about politics? There’s been an increased discussion in recent years […]

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The HOPOS Journal
@hoposjournal.bsky.social

Our Fall issue has just published! HOPOS volume 16, number 2 includes articles on evolutionary thinking east and west, two each on Kant and Duhem, the philosophy of experimentation, the Copenhagen Interpretation of QM, and constructive empiricism.

Bennett McNulty
@mbmcnulty.bsky.social

Herbert Feigl in a 1973 interview, anticipating our current moment: "We can build you a machine now that will compose music.... then you better build a machine that will appreciate that kind of music."

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Sander Verhaegh
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The book will be launched with an online symposium featuring comments by Richard Creath, Christian Damböck, @profess.bsky.social, and @bweatherson.bsky.social, hosted by @flpadovani.bsky.social *Online Book launch* Wed. Sep. 9, 17.00-18.30 CEST (UTC+2) Registration: tiny.cc/haa9101 (2/3)

tiny.ccRegistration book launch Logical PositivismBook launch: Logical Positivism: An American History Date: Wednesday, September 9, 2026 Time: 17.00-18.30 CEST (UTC+2) Location: Online

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Jon Collins
@jcollins.bsky.social

Legal documents released today show federal law enforcement officials extensively surveilled public meetings and activists during the ICE surge, and created dossiers on political enemies. I've been busy, but will post some takeaways on this thread soon: (1) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

mprnews.orgAttorney: Homeland Security spied on Minnesotans who spoke out against ICEDefense attorney Kevin Riach alleges that just four days after Alex Pretti was shot and killed by federal agents, that Homeland Security Investigations launched Operation Puppet Master. The agency cou...
Bennett McNulty
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i would encourage our discipline to reject LLM word association plagiarism from scholarly journals

Justin Weinberg@dailynous.com

A philosophy journal just published an article written mostly by Claude. The philosopher who "supervised" Claude, and who is listed as the article's author, explains how he did it. The journal's editor thinks of the decision to publish the piece as an "experiment."

dailynous.comPhilosophy Journal Publishes Largely AI-Authored Article — On Purpose (guest post) - Daily NousPhilosophy & Public Affairs recently---and knowingly---published an article written mostly by Claude, Anthropic's LLM. The article's thesis was supplied by Simon Goldstein, associate professor of phil...
Bennett McNulty
@mbmcnulty.bsky.social

when the PPA editorial board resigned en masse in 2024, they noted the commercial publishing model "has also incentivized commercial publishers to try to publish as many articles as possible and so to pressure rigorous journals to weaken or abandon their quality controls." somewhat prescient

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Unicorn Riot
@unicornriot.bsky.social

"When they say we’re coming for anti-fascists, what they’re calling Antifa is a boogeyman that doesn’t exist. What they’re doing is they’re going after anybody who says no to them," said union electrician & activist Cal Robinet after being indicted with the Minnesota 15 on conspiracy charges.

Bennett McNulty
@mbmcnulty.bsky.social

Excited to be on my way to Columbus for the 2026 HOPOS conference! I’ll be presenting on the philosophical backdrop to Cronbach & Meehl’s watershed 1955 construct validity paper. See y’all there. #HOPOS #HPS

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Cat Saint-Croix
@catsaintcroix.bsky.social

"Zetetic and Epistemic Deference in Standpoint Epistemology" is now actually out in Phil Studies! :D link.springer.com/article/10.1...

link.springer.comZetetic and epistemic deference in standpoint epistemology - Philosophical StudiesThe Advantage Thesis is the centerpiece of standpoint epistemology. According to this thesis, standpoint occupants—those who bear a particular sort of epistemically fruitful relationship to marginaliz...
Cat Saint-Croix@catsaintcroix.bsky.social

📣🎉 New paper! "Zetetic and Epistemic Deference in Standpoint Epistemology", forthcoming in Phil Studies! Epistemic deference has gotten a bad rap in standpoint epistemology lately, but that's a bad take. Here's why. philpapers.org/rec/SAIZAE

philpapers.orgCatharine Saint-Croix, Zetetic and Epistemic Deference in Standpoint Epistemology - PhilPapersThe Advantage Thesis is the centerpiece of standpoint epistemology. According to this thesis, standpoint occupants—those who bear a particular sort of epistemically fruitful relationship to marginaliz...

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John Attridge
@johnattridge.bsky.social

Academic writing should be addressed neither to the public nor to other academics. It should be addressed to a single interlocutor with whom you have a petty rivalry and whose work you are trying to discredit

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Alan Richardson
@alanrichardson.bsky.social

High quality volume from excellent editors!

The HOPOS Journal@hoposjournal.bsky.social

Routledge Handbook of the History of Philosophy of Science After Kant (2026). Edited by Flavia Padovani, Adam Tamas Tuboly. The 50 essays in this Handbook cover perspectives, theories, movements, and traditions in the field. Link: www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

routledge.comThe Routledge Handbook of the History of Philosophy of Science After KantThe History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS) is a relatively new yet rapidly growing field. Emerging from diverse approaches within the history and philosophy of science, it encompasses a wide range…

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Michela Massimi
@michelamassimi.bsky.social

Forthcoming in @hoposjournal.bsky.social! I discuss the systemic injustice that saw women banned from scientific education in Victorian Britain through the lenses of how artisanal knowledges like weaving and knitting were severed from mathematical knowledge. #philsci philsci-archive.pitt.edu/29274/

philsci-archive.pitt.edu Knots and Knitting: On the Dangers of Epistemically Severing and Trademarking Artisanal Knowledges from Science - PhilSci-Archive

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American Philosophical Association
@apaphilosophy.bsky.social

New association alert: APA Central Division past president Valerie Tiberius is the inaugural president of the International Society for Moral Psychology (ISMP). APA member John Doris is a co-project director. ISMP membership is free for a limited time. dailynous.com/2026/04/13/n...

dailynous.comNew: International Society for Moral Psychology - Daily NousThe International Society for Moral Psychology (ISMP) is a new association that aims to be an “interdisciplinary and international home for moral psychology, aimed at fostering deeper engagement…

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Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science
@mcps-philsci.bsky.social

3 more PSA Office Hours this semester! All at 12pm EDT. April: Scientific Epistemology:KareemKhalifa, Pitt/UCLA: 8 April; May: Philos of Ecology:KarenKovaka (UC SanDiego)&CarlosSantana (UPenn): 7 May; May: Philos of Linguistics:GabrielDupre (UC Davis)&Ryan Nefdt (U CapeTown): 20 May

buff.lyPSA Office Hour - Philosophy of Science AssociationThe PSA Office Hour aims to facilitate interactions between our graduate student membership and prominent philosophers of science, and in a more controlled, accessible, and carbon-conscious setting…
Bennett McNulty
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Minnesota Star Tribune@startribune.com

“Leave a Future” is the University of Minnesota’s first new tagline in 20 years. People aren’t quite sure what it means, or what to think of it.

startribune.comThe U paid a marketing firm $15M for a new slogan. The internet has thoughts.“Leave a Future” is the University of Minnesota’s first new tagline in 20 years. People aren’t quite sure what it means, or what to think of it.