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Smithsonian Contributions to Metaphysics
The most prestigious journal ever published in the field of high-energy metaphysics, Smithsonian Contributions completed its ground-breaking run in one hundred numbers from 1989–1991. It was continued by the highly influential series of Wisconsin Studies in Experimental Psychosystematics.
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 1
"Doing the research again is easier
than reading German."
S. L. Olson, 1989
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 2
"What is the meaning of this?"
J. T. Marshall, 1989
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 3
"Life I can deal with; the parking
office sucks."
S. L. Olson, 1989
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 4
"Even having all that knowledge, there
are things I would want to know that
are just unknowable."
G. R. Graves, 1989
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 5
"My head is spinning."
R. L. Zusi, 1989
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 6
"You know, this place just irritates me."
G. R. Graves, 1989
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 7
"What do we know about anything? Not a
whole hell of a lot, do we?"
C. A. Ludwig, 1989
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 8
"I don't mind killin' anything."
C. J. Dove, 1989
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 9
"Bob is always right."
C. J. Dove, 1989
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 10
"Bob is most of the time right."
K. Reed, 1989
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 11
"The more you party the better
you get at it."
C. Moss, 1989
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 12
"There's nothin' in the world that
looks like that."
G. R. Graves, 1989
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 13
"Nothing is too complicated
if it's for Science."
G. R. Graves, 1989
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 14
"Phylogenetic reconstruction based
on morphology is not suitable for
the human life span."
R. L. Zusi, 1990
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 15
"Think big."
G. R. Graves, 1990
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 16
"Would you quit thinking!"
G. R. Graves, 1990
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 17
"Let's cut out this foolishness and eat."
R. L. Zusi, 1990
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 18
"Drink a cup of coffee, smoke a cigarette,
and you'll be good for five hours."
C. J. Dove, 1990
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 19
"I used to be a killin' machine."
C. J. Dove, 1990
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 20
"I don't now; I just don't know;
I'm stymied, confused, lost."
B. B. Farmer, 1990
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 21
"I shouldn't have said that."
B. B. Farmer, 1990
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 22
"Our duty is to obfuscate wherever possible."
C. A. Ludwig, 1990
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 23
"I have too many problems."
C. J. Dove, 1990
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 24
"Anatomy is just too hard to learn
for ordinary people."
G. R. Graves, 1990
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 25
"The guy showed us how to do analysis
of variance, and I started to get a
tingle up my spine."
G. R. Graves, 1990
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 26
"I'm gonna have to shut up around you guys."
G. R. Graves, 1990
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 27
"I never do what I'm supposed to do;
that's the problem."
B. B. Farmer, 1990
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 28
"My career's been five percent beetles
and ninety-five percent gossip."
R. Craw, 1990
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 29
"We're just occupying time until the
end of the world, aren't we?"
R. Craw, 1990
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 30
"Philosophy really is the
trashcan of science."
R. Craw, 1990
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 31
"Richard Zusi! That funky dude!"
G. R. Graves, 1990
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 32
"The guy's just a little bit too slick
for a hayseed like myself."
G. R. Graves, 1990
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 33
"Those people who think nature is that
great - they don't know it at all."
P. Ericson, 1990
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 34
"How do they tell fiction from reality?"
P. Ericson, 1990
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 35
"God has told a lot of people to do
a lot of crazy things."
B. B. Farmer, 1990
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 36
"You've got to watch these Air Force people."
R. Laybourne, 1990
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 37
"Taxonomic characters don't exist."
R. L. Zusi, 1990
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 38
"We don't want to encourage too much thinking."
B. B. Farmer, 1990
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 39
"What's in it for me?"
G. R. Graves, 1990
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 40
"I'll sign anything."
R. L. Zusi, 1990
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 41
"That's the problem with the Smithsonian
now: too many curators."
G. R. Graves, 1990
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 42
"There's no halo; it can't be Ernst Mayr."
S. L. Olson, 1990
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 43
"It's amazing when you really get into it how
unexciting and unnovel things really are."
G. R. Graves, 1990
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 44
"Wherefore art thou raccoon?"
B. B. Farmer, 1990
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 45
"I'm gonna let him die slowly."
C. J. Dove, 1990
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 46
"I'm not mean, I'm merely asocial."
G. R. Graves, 1990
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 47
"It's a damn fine line between doing
something and doing nothing."
G. R. Graves, 1991
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 48
"I swear, Ralph, they should all be shot."
C. J. Dove, 1991
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 49
"Molecules, smolecules."
C. J. Dove, 1991
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 50
"I wonder who's gonna be No. 50?"
B. B. Farmer, 1991
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 51
"I guess I'm just not a
metaphysical kind of guy."
J. P. Dean, 1991
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 52
"There are too many damn people,
that's the problem."
G. R. Graves, 1991
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 53
"What constitutes 'being the same'?"
K. Warheit, 1991
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 54
"If you ever get the opportunity,
soak 'em good."
C. J. Dove, 1991
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 55
"Science should be person-independent; y'know,
like truth and beauty and all that crap."
G. R. Graves, 1991
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 56
"Want to take my place?"
F. Talbot, 1991
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 57
"IBM's to be blamed for a lot of things."
K. Warheit, 1991
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 58
"Linnaeus is certainly gonna bite the
dust in the next ten years."
K. Warheit, 1991
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 59
"One never really finds what one's
looking for, does one?"
R. Simpson, 1991
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 60
"Everything puts its nest somewhere."
G. R. Graves, 1991
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 61
"I've got blood all over me."
C. J. Dove, 1991
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 62
"What about parsimony, anyway?"
K. de Queiroz, 1991
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 63
"Maybe avian systematics is so difficult
because we know so much about it."
R. L. Zusi, 1991
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 64
"Things you can't measure don't
have much significance."
G. R. Graves, 1991
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 65
"Boy, I'd hate to fall face first
into that stuff!"
G. R. Graves, 1991
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 66
"I have an anaerobic brain."
B. B. Farmer, 1991
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 67
"I don't think fish have necks."
K. Warheit, 1991
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 68
"In the absence of a time machine
we only do the best we can do."
E. O. Wiley, 1991
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 69
"Monkeys we don't have."
M. V. Osborne, 1991
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 70
"That's a matter of opinion."
C. J. Dove, 1991
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 71
"Getting along fine is only a matter of
taking the right statistical approach."
J. S. Farris, 1991
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 72
"I'd like to keep this as
theoretical as possible."
K. Warheit, 1991
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 73
"Carla's been killing things again."
B. B. Farmer, 1991
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 74
"Who cares what Platnick did in 1976?"
K. de Queiroz, 1991
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 75
"Oh! I squished his guts out!"
C. J. Dove, 1991
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 76
"Whoops! I pulled his head off!
Sorry, little boy!"
C. J. Dove, 1991
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 77
"I can't believe she died just
because I pulled her legs off."
C. J. Dove, 1991
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 78
"I hope Bob isn't writing
this down."
K. Warheit, 1991
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 79
"Yes, I believe in the conservation of
archival materials, but not to the point
of their destruction."
M. R. Browning, 1991
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 80
"'Tis the season to be oily."
B. B Farmer, 1991
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 81
"No, Joel; you're mixing up
ontology and epistemology."
B. Mishler, 1991
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 82
"We're getting relatively stupider and
more ignorant as time goes on."
G. R. Graves, 1991
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 83
"You ain't nobody until you've
got a paper in Science."
G. R. Graves, 1991
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 84
"Computer-uter."
C. J. Dove, 1991
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 85
"Don't buy a book, buy a bottle of scotch."
C. J. Dove, 1991
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 86
"You have to kind of grow up with okra."
R. C. Laybourne, 1991
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 87
"There's no justice in this world."
S. L. Olson, 1991
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 88
"There are always bugs."
R. L. Zusi, 1991
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 89
"I like to be entertained."
G. R. Graves, 1991
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 90
"Nobody lives forever."
G. R. Graves, 1991
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 91
"I get grant money for looking at gossip."
M. Ruse, 1991
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 92
"Thou shalt have problems."
B. B. Farmer, 1991
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 93
"I give the dead credit where credit is due."
G. C. Mayer, 1991
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 94
"Sometimes these guys around
here crack me up!"
C. J. Dove, 1991
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 95
"I consider Gould to be the foremost
proponent of Continental obscurantism
in North America."
G. C. Mayer, 1991
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 96
"I'm sure that twelve years of
psychoanalysis could alleviate
the problem."
G. C. Mayer, 1991
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 97
"These guys 150 years ago - they
were the real natural historians."
K. de Queiroz, 1991
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 98
"Darwin and Wallace and Agassiz and
Sedgwick all knew everything worth knowing."
G. C. Mayer, 1991
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 99
"Once you learn a few of the symbols,
everything else follows."
G. C. Mayer, 1991
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO METAPHYSICS, No. 100
"Well, things are dysfunctional around here."
B. B. Farmer, 1991
Acknowledgements
The publication of Smithsonian Contributions to Metaphysics was supported in part by a Smithsonian Institution postdoctoral fellowship to RJO.