Bennett McNulty

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Imagine how much they’d show up there if it was still SUPER AMERICA

Dear Kant Scholar friends: do you know of any texts in which Kant reflected on the Russian occupation of Königsberg during the Seven Year’s War? Starting a course on Kant next week and trying to make it more relevant to the current events in (occupied) Minneapolis. #philosophy #kant

I’m going to go with the latter.

alive and trollin'

screenshot of email from Steve Fuller to the HOPOS listserv with content that reads "Scholasticism on overdrive"

we're so back #hopos

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"

Well, I’m at least happy that Pitt took Gabel off of our hands.

google is out of control. google docs' auto grammar check just told me I should split my infinitive. 😡

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"

philosophers out here just hiring anyone these days smh

UMN administration has not taken this simple step.

PhD Project in Philosophy of Science: Philosophical Perspectives on Animal Models in Translational Neuroscience

3 year PhD position at U of Copenhagen for a philosophical analysis of animal models in translational neuroscience. Those with MA in HPS, philosophy, anthropology, psychology, STS, etc. are welcome to apply. Application deadline is Oct 31 #HPS #STS employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...

Podcast episode description from The Daily, titled “The U.S. Keeps Killing Venezuelans on Boats. Is That Legal?”

Real @nytpitchbot.bsky.social energy here…

Sick. Congrats! I'm going to have to get myself a copy.

Oh and it was also eventually rejected 🥴

I once had a series of R&Rs where MY responses alone totaled 10k words. I want credit for another article for that.

HOPOS 2026 Paper and symposium proposals for HOPOS 2026 can now be submitted through this web site. For detailed instructions, plea

There's still time to submit to HOPOS 2026 - The Sixteenth Biennial Congress of the International Society for the History and Philosophy of Science.

June 22-26, 2026 at The Ohio State University.

Deadline: 11:59 PM (PDT), September 30, 2025.

hopos2026.dryfta.com/index.php

S5 E7 - Lydia Patton on HOPOS

🎙️ New HPS Pod!

I chat with Prof. Lydia Patton about HOPOS — the history of philosophy of science. From her editorship of the journal to the future of the discipline, Patton shares why a historical lens reshapes core philosophical questions.

🎧 Link in bio!

#HOPOS

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

Chuck Schumer will write a very strongly worded letter.

Forearm with a fresh tattoo of an illustrated elephant.

New tat substantially increases my #HOPOS cred

Unsolicited advice for incoming PhD students:

Be wary of faculty who tend to shit-talk their colleagues in the presence of students. Don't allow yourself to be conscripted into their petty rivalries

(Not casting aspersions. I do it myself. And now that I am doing work that's more social/institutional history, I find myself writing with conflicting tenses regularly...)

Has anyone written on historians of philosophy's propensity to write in present tense about historical philosophical theories? There is some sort of Platonic assumption about the atemporality of the conceptual systems we are engaging with, right?

Your post made me read that DN article. SO THANKS FOR THAT.

The yellow text on a dark background is giving me serious Star Wars opening crawl vibes 😂

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

Going to @philipcball.bsky.social’s Plenary at @ishpssb2025.bsky.social #ishpssb2025

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”

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