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Bennett McNulty @mbmcnulty.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

this is the kind of innovation that got me in the Canvas Hall of Fame

Thumbnail of Canvas course listing with image of Immanuel Kant with laser eyes. Text underneath reads "PHIL 8090 (001) Seminar: History...
PHIL 8090 (001)
2026 Fall (8/10/2026-01/06/2027)"

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Bennett McNulty @mbmcnulty.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Paul Feyerabend in correspondence with Grover Maxwell, excited about his new typewriter.

mathematician who h as deterioated into philosophy and is very much interested into classical physics and the pos ibilities of formalization there, role of definitions, theory of measurement (he is developing a theory of
particle
measurement for classical particle nechanics with the help of signals of infinite speed), theory of observation etc.
Forgive this short letter, I really do not feel very well - all the best
Paul

P.S.: My typewriter contains now the following impressive symbols

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Bennett McNulty @mbmcnulty.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

It was nice of Tyler to join you from the afterlife this week

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Bennett McNulty @mbmcnulty.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

my computer trying to shame me about me email responsiveness

Computer screen text, which reads as follows:
"All inboxes
Filter by: Unread (9,223,372,936,854,773,568 messa..."

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Bennett McNulty @mbmcnulty.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

nah nah nah you got the wrong guy

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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Bennett McNulty @mbmcnulty.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

“”””scheduled””””

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Bennett McNulty @mbmcnulty.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

philosophers out here just hiring anyone these days smh

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"

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Bennett McNulty @mbmcnulty.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Nah, you can't do that. That's Ohio State's thing.

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Bennett McNulty @mbmcnulty.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

New tat substantially increases my #HOPOS cred

Forearm with a fresh tattoo of an illustrated elephant.

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Bennett McNulty @mbmcnulty.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

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”

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Bennett McNulty @mbmcnulty.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

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.

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Bennett McNulty @mbmcnulty.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Fun in the archive: Bob Cohen signs Adolf Grünbaum up for the mailing list of a theocratic political party. 😂

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Bennett McNulty @mbmcnulty.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

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!"

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Bennett McNulty @mbmcnulty.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

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”.

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Bennett McNulty @mbmcnulty.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

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.’”

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Bennett McNulty @mbmcnulty.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

babe wake up. the new liar paradox just dropped

Signal message that reads "We are currently clean on OPSEC"

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Bennett McNulty @mbmcnulty.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

me, accidentally hitting 'reply-all':

Signal message reading "We are currently clean on OPSEC."

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Bennett McNulty @mbmcnulty.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

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"

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Bennett McNulty @mbmcnulty.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

☀️ 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”

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Bennett McNulty @mbmcnulty.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

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"

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Bennett McNulty @mbmcnulty.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

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.

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Bennett McNulty @mbmcnulty.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Relevant student art in Philsci course

Whiteboard with rudimentary drawing of a fish, above which is written “Wesley Salmon”.

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Bennett McNulty @mbmcnulty.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

This meme is brought to you by Wesley Salmon (1981)

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"

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Bennett McNulty @mbmcnulty.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

A Memory Called Empire really nailing my ethos of email here.

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.”

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Bennett McNulty @mbmcnulty.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

“It’s more of a comment than a question”

Courtroom sketch of Rudy Giuliani aggressively gesturing.

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Bennett McNulty @mbmcnulty.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

What say you, HOPOI? [Text message from a collaborator of mine this morning.] #hopos #philsci #philsky

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?”

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Bennett McNulty @mbmcnulty.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Do your students gift you Philip Frank and Hans Reichenbach books they found for $1 a piece at the university reuse furniture store? ‘Cause my students gift me Philip Frank and Hans Reichenbach books they found for $1 a piece at the university reuse furniture store.

Two books, The Rise of Scientific Philosophy by Hans Reichenbach and The Validation of Scientific Theories by Philipp Frank, on a wood table.

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