Jennifer Mcnulty
Biographic Data
| ID | 207848 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer Mcnulty |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcnulty |
| SIGNATURE | MCNULTY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5094-5577 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Hole Within Being
Among Sartre's best‐known theses in Being and Nothingness is his claim that the world of experience contains what he calls “négatités,” little pools or pockets of nothingness. The most famous example of a négatité is Pierre, the friend who is absent from the café. Sartre's conviction that there are négatités all around us has another side, often obscured from view: I mean his (apparent) conviction that we ourselves are a kind of non‐being or noth…
Heidegger, Being and the Ineffable
I here respond to Casati’s wonderful new book: Heidegger and the Contradiction of Being. I do so by attempting to reinforce the case for an alternative to his dialetheist interpretation of Heidegger: an interpretation based on what he calls “the showing solution” (borrowed from the literature on Wittgenstein). According to “the showing solution” the appropriate response to the contradiction of being is to accept its ineffability, not attempt to e…
Justice as the constitutive norm of shared agency in Rousseau’s Social Contract
Bad faith as true contradiction
This essay defends a modified version of Nahum Browns “dialetheist” interpretation of bad faith. On this interpretation, bad faith, as a form of self‐deception, constitutes a dialetheia or true contradiction. While in agreement with the dialetheist interpretation, I argue that bad faith is just as much a flight from true contradiction and towards what I call “sham consistency.” I also put forward a multi‐step model of bad faith as cyclical, recur…
From analytic pragmatism to historical materialism
My aim in this paper is to explore an affinity between early critical theory and analytical philosophy. The affinity is in a fairly unexpected area: philosophy of science. I argue that early critical theory embraces a view of science which is a natural if somewhat unfamiliar extension of the pragmatist one defended by Quine. In particular, I argue that Horkheimer has a version of the Quine‐Duhem thesis (“underdetermination of theory choice by the…
Class-struggle in the rational state
For Hegel, poverty is not simply a misfortune, but, rather, a kind of injury inflicted on one class by another. Though Hegel rejects Marx’s theory of class, he nevertheless anticipates Marx’s idea of the exploitation of one class by another. How, though, do we align this proto-marxist dichotomy between rich and poor with Hegel’s official theory of class; his tripartite theory of estates? I argue that Hegel’s wealthy are chiefly found in the ‘merc…
Hegel's Ontological Argument
This essay takes up a challenge recently posed by Graham Oppy: to clearly express, in premise-conclusion form, Hegel's version of the ontological argument. In addition to employing this format, it seeks to supplement existing treatments by locating a core component of Hegel's argument in a slightly different place than is common. Whereas some prominent recent treatments (Williams, Bubbio, Melechar) focus on Hegel's definition of the Absolute as t…
Methodological Individualism v. Holism in Hegel and Marx
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What Works, What Doesn’t? Three Studies Designed to Improve Survey Response
Over the past few decades, the survey industry has experienced a steady decline in response rates, which has posed numerous challenges for researchers, most notably concerns about nonresponse bias. We present results from three studies conducted in an attempt to increase response rates and reduce nonresponse bias for a U.S. national household survey. We examined design features related to mode (i.e., mail-only vs. web-push), incentive, reminder t…
Friends or Strangers? A Feasibility Study of an Innovative Focus Group Methodology
Focus groups are useful tools for examining perceptions, feelings, and suggestions about topics, products, or issues. Typically, focus groups are held in formal facilities with “strangers” or participants who do not know each other. Recent work suggests that “friendship groups” may provide an innovative alternative for collecting group-level qualitative data. This approach involves recruiting a single “source participant” who hosts a group in his…
Virtual Works - Actual Things
During the Academy, Lydia Goehr discussed the notion of "discomposition" as a philosophical
Transcendental Philosophy and Intersubjectivity
In the opening sections of his Foundations of Natural Right , Fichte argues that mutual recognition is a condition for the possibility of self-consciousness. However, the argument turns on the apparently unconvincing claim that, in the context of transcendental philosophy, conceptions of the subject as an isolated individual give rise to a vicious circle the resolution of which requires the introduction of a second rational being to 'summon' the …
What Works, What Doesn’t? Three Studies Designed to Improve Survey Response
Over the past few decades, the survey industry has experienced a steady decline in response rates, which has posed numerous challenges for researchers, most notably concerns about nonresponse bias. We present results from three studies conducted in an attempt to increase response rates and reduce nonresponse bias for a U.S. national household survey. We examined design features related to mode (i.e., mail-only vs. web-push), incentive, reminder t…
Friends or Strangers? A Feasibility Study of an Innovative Focus Group Methodology
Focus groups are useful tools for examining perceptions, feelings, and suggestions about topics, products, or issues. Typically, focus groups are held in formal facilities with “strangers” or participants who do not know each other. Recent work suggests that “friendship groups” may provide an innovative alternative for collecting group-level qualitative data. This approach involves recruiting a single “source participant” who hosts a group in his…
Transcendental Philosophy and Intersubjectivity
In the opening sections of his Foundations of Natural Right , Fichte argues that mutual recognition is a condition for the possibility of self-consciousness. However, the argument turns on the apparently unconvincing claim that, in the context of transcendental philosophy, conceptions of the subject as an isolated individual give rise to a vicious circle the resolution of which requires the introduction of a second rational being to 'summon' the …
Virtual Works - Actual Things
During the Academy, Lydia Goehr discussed the notion of "discomposition" as a philosophical
Transcendental Philosophy and Intersubjectivity
In the opening sections of his Foundations of Natural Right , Fichte argues that mutual recognition is a condition for the possibility of self-consciousness. However, the argument turns on the apparently unconvincing claim that, in the context of transcendental philosophy, conceptions of the subject as an isolated individual give rise to a vicious circle the resolution of which requires the introduction of a second rational being to 'summon' the …
Friends or Strangers? A Feasibility Study of an Innovative Focus Group Methodology
Focus groups are useful tools for examining perceptions, feelings, and suggestions about topics, products, or issues. Typically, focus groups are held in formal facilities with “strangers” or participants who do not know each other. Recent work suggests that “friendship groups” may provide an innovative alternative for collecting group-level qualitative data. This approach involves recruiting a single “source participant” who hosts a group in his…
Virtual Works - Actual Things
During the Academy, Lydia Goehr discussed the notion of "discomposition" as a philosophical
What Works, What Doesn’t? Three Studies Designed to Improve Survey Response
Over the past few decades, the survey industry has experienced a steady decline in response rates, which has posed numerous challenges for researchers, most notably concerns about nonresponse bias. We present results from three studies conducted in an attempt to increase response rates and reduce nonresponse bias for a U.S. national household survey. We examined design features related to mode (i.e., mail-only vs. web-push), incentive, reminder t…
Methodological Individualism v. Holism in Hegel and Marx
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
From analytic pragmatism to historical materialism
My aim in this paper is to explore an affinity between early critical theory and analytical philosophy. The affinity is in a fairly unexpected area: philosophy of science. I argue that early critical theory embraces a view of science which is a natural if somewhat unfamiliar extension of the pragmatist one defended by Quine. In particular, I argue that Horkheimer has a version of the Quine‐Duhem thesis (“underdetermination of theory choice by the…
Class-struggle in the rational state
For Hegel, poverty is not simply a misfortune, but, rather, a kind of injury inflicted on one class by another. Though Hegel rejects Marx’s theory of class, he nevertheless anticipates Marx’s idea of the exploitation of one class by another. How, though, do we align this proto-marxist dichotomy between rich and poor with Hegel’s official theory of class; his tripartite theory of estates? I argue that Hegel’s wealthy are chiefly found in the ‘merc…
Hegel's Ontological Argument
This essay takes up a challenge recently posed by Graham Oppy: to clearly express, in premise-conclusion form, Hegel's version of the ontological argument. In addition to employing this format, it seeks to supplement existing treatments by locating a core component of Hegel's argument in a slightly different place than is common. Whereas some prominent recent treatments (Williams, Bubbio, Melechar) focus on Hegel's definition of the Absolute as t…
Bad faith as true contradiction
This essay defends a modified version of Nahum Browns “dialetheist” interpretation of bad faith. On this interpretation, bad faith, as a form of self‐deception, constitutes a dialetheia or true contradiction. While in agreement with the dialetheist interpretation, I argue that bad faith is just as much a flight from true contradiction and towards what I call “sham consistency.” I also put forward a multi‐step model of bad faith as cyclical, recur…
Heidegger, Being and the Ineffable
I here respond to Casati’s wonderful new book: Heidegger and the Contradiction of Being. I do so by attempting to reinforce the case for an alternative to his dialetheist interpretation of Heidegger: an interpretation based on what he calls “the showing solution” (borrowed from the literature on Wittgenstein). According to “the showing solution” the appropriate response to the contradiction of being is to accept its ineffability, not attempt to e…
Justice as the constitutive norm of shared agency in Rousseau’s Social Contract
A Hole Within Being
Among Sartre's best‐known theses in Being and Nothingness is his claim that the world of experience contains what he calls “négatités,” little pools or pockets of nothingness. The most famous example of a négatité is Pierre, the friend who is absent from the café. Sartre's conviction that there are négatités all around us has another side, often obscured from view: I mean his (apparent) conviction that we ourselves are a kind of non‐being or noth…
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