Jennifer McKitrick is a contemporary analytic philosopher at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln specializing in metaphysics, particularly the theory of dispositions and social ontology. She is best known for her book Dispositional Pluralism (2018), which argues that dispositions are a heterogeneous category unified by their role in counterfactual reasoning rather than by a single underlying essence. Her work bridges core analytic metaphysics and applied questions about gender, identity, and social construction.
Developed dispositional pluralism, the view that dispositions form a family unified by counterfactual role rather than intrinsic nature (Dispositional Pluralism, 2018)
Argued for a dispositional account of gender, grounding gender categories in clusters of socially conditioned dispositions
Contributed to debates on social construction and the metaphysics of identity, arguing that social conditions partially constitute who individuals are
Advanced discussions on the relationship between dispositions, causation, and laws of nature in analytic metaphysics