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Wisconsin Studies in Experimental Psychosystematics
The most prestigious journal ever published in the field of experimental psychosystematics, Wisconsin Studies completed its frenetic run in one hundred numbers from 1991–1992. So thoroughly did it explore the field that little else has been published in experimental psychosystematics in the years since.
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 1
"I've now discovered that I can't do
philosophy sitting down."
E. Sober, 1991
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 2
"Olives don't have much of a mental life."
M. Solovey, 1991
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 3
"We don't know how to individuate anything."
E. Sober, 1991
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 4
"It's hard to say anything
new in philosophy."
M. Vicedo, 1991
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 5
"I can't read something without
holding a pen in my hand."
E. Sober, 1991
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 6
"You can't get that close to
the cutting edge and not bleed."
G. C. Mayer, 1991
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 7
"Time and DNA wait for no man."
G. C. Mayer, 1991
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 8
"I'm very naive, but now I'm
discovering some things."
M. Vicedo, 1991
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 9
"So many things in life are
good up to a point."
M. Vicedo, 1991
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 10
"I stopped reading books years ago."
M. Solovey, 1991
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 11
"The goal of estimation is
to constrain oneself."
G. C. Mayer, 1991
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 12
"If Bob ever publishes my
remarks I'll never get a job."
M. Vicedo, 1991
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 13
"I'm very old fashioned.
I'm interested in truth."
M. Vicedo, 1991
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 14
"When I was a kid, I always
thought I was pretty dumb."
M. Vicedo, 1991
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 15
"The problem with being a well-read,
well-educated man is that no one is
willing to pay you to do that."
G. C. Mayer, 1991
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 16
"You've either got an infinite regress
or a big circle."
M. Forster, 1991
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 17
"It all depends on what the facts are."
G. C. Mayer, 1991
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 18
"The more piles you have, the less
organized you are."
G. C. Mayer, 1991
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 19
"You could kill a couple of them."
M. Vicedo, 1991
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 20
"Hennig has nothing to do with cladistics."
G. C. Mayer, 1991
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 21
"There is a God, and He's in this computer."
G. C. Mayer, 1991
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 22
"Drink beer, eat shrimp, and shoot kangaroos
from the back of your pickup truck."
G. C. Mayer, 1991
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 23
"I think we are awash in
a sea of irrationalism."
G. C. Mayer, 1991
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 24
"I'm going to take a bunch of
philosophers, for protection."
E. Sober, 1991
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 25
"That was fun: go out in the
woods and set fires."
L. Robbins, 1991
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 26
"You know what I'm really
interested in? Dead lizards."
G. C. Mayer, 1991
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 27
"Italians give papers sitting."
J. Camerini, 1991
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 28
"I don't know what they don't know,
ya know? And that's what you have to know."
J. Camerini, 1991
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 29
"The only thing important in
philosophy, Bob, is to be stubborn."
M. Vicedo, 1991
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 30
"I know a Markovian process when I see one."
G. C. Mayer, 1991
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 31
"In an ordinary everyday sense,
I think truth is OK."
T. Nickles, 1991
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 32
"Vague is a word that is
used with some precision."
E. Sober, 1991
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 33
"It's just amazing how much money I need."
M. Vicedo, 1991
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 34
"That's just rubbish."
M. Vicedo, 1991
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 35
"If Marilyn Monroe said it,
I have to use it."
M. Vicedo, 1991
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 36
"I am worried it's going to esplode."
M. Vicedo, 1991
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 37
"Humpty Dumpty was right about stipulation."
E. Sober, 1991
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 38
"How can you hate things that are true?"
E. Sober, 1991
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 39
"I don't know how to assign a probability
to the existence of God."
E. Sober, 1991
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 40
"This is not supposed to be realistic
biology, right? It's philosophy."
E. Sober, 1991
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 41
"I don't know why you should believe
anything I've just said."
E. Sober, 1991
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 42
"I love these tree diagrams where
deconstruction is on one branch and
Ernst Mayr is on another branch."
E. Sober, 1991
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 43
"I can't believe I'm lecturing on
deconstruction. I surprise
myself sometimes."
E. Sober, 1991
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 44
"Dictionaries don't help you do philosophy."
E. Sober, 1991
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 45
"If you go to do field work you
certainly don't construct a snake!"
M. Vicedo, 1991
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 46
"In Spain, people don't move."
M. Vicedo, 1991
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 47
"It has to do with your p's and q's."
E. Sober, 1991
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 48
"If I don't know about him, he
didn't contribute anything to what
we still believe."
G. C. Mayer, 1991
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 49
"Rocks don't learn language; people do."
E. Sober, 1991
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 50
"Why don't you say something profound
so you can get to an even 50."
G. C. Mayer, 1991
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 51
"The more I read the more confused I am."
M. Vicedo, 1991
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 52
"I've always found it difficult to believe
that there are people with no ideas."
M. Vicedo, 1991
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 53
"There is more slop than is dreamt of
in your philosophy."
G. C. Mayer, 1991
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 54
"What do you expect; a philosopher doesn't
know what the issues are."
G. C. Mayer, 1991
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 55
"Everything had already happened in
the world by the fall of Rome."
J. Wills, 1991
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 56
"Darlington and Mayr made faces and said
'That's ridiculous,' and look what
happened to them."
G. C. Mayer, 1991
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 57
"Science praedictio do fingo."
G. C. Mayer, 1991
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 58
"It's time-consuming being a human being."
N. Le Duc, 1991
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 59
"There seems to be an infinite
number of interesting subjects."
M. Solovey, 1991
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 60
"What's so awful about
being a social misfit?"
A. Strawson, 1991
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 61
"You never get it. That's what's
wonderful about it."
E. Sober, 1991
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 62
"If I were Andy Warhol, they'd pay me
for it. But of course if I were
Andy Warhol, I'd be dead."
G. C. Mayer, 1991
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 63
"You can never have too much bibliography."
J. Wills, 1992
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 64
"I urge you resolutely to accept whatever
course of action leads to more money."
G. C. Mayer, 1992
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 65
"So, I've become greatly interested
in the fall of Constantinople."
G. C. Mayer, 1992
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 66
"Who cares about truth?"
E. Sober, 1992
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 67
"So, what did Foucault think?"
G. C. Mayer, 1992
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 68
"Don't underestimate the moronic factor."
G. C. Mayer, 1992
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 69
"Trees come and go; characters are forever."
G. C. Mayer, 1992
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 70
"If we already knew stuff, we
wouldn't have to argue about it."
E. Sober, 1992
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 71
"The difference between
land and water is important."
G. C. Mayer, 1992
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 72
"They're very highly derived animals,
specialized in the direction of stupidity."
J. A. W. Kirsch, 1992
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 73
"Many a something is lost twixt the
something and the something."
G. C. Mayer, 1992
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 74
"I don't know what it is to be
monophyletic."
G. C. Mayer, 1992
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 75
"If you can't trust a proton beam
analysis, who can you trust?"
G. C. Mayer, 1992
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 76
"Talk about wacky and wonderful!
To me, this is on the top of the list!"
E. Sober, 1992
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 77
"You can't make someone
say something intelligible."
P. Gottleib, 1992
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 78
"This is not a joke. This is
the history of philosophy."
E. Sober, 1992
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 79
"Ultimately, the only interesting
question in the history of science
is: 'Were they right?'"
G. C. Mayer, 1992
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 80
"Maybe we don't even know
anything, but so what?"
E. Sober, 1992
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 81
"It's remarkable that philosophers
have agreed on anything for more
than five seconds."
E. Sober, 1992
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 82
"As strange as philosophy is,
physics is even stranger."
E. Sober, 1992
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 83
"It's like being inside of a donut."
E. Sober, 1992
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 84
"'If' is a very important word."
E. Sober, 1992
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 85
"Anyone with a printing press
is a systematist."
G. C. Mayer, 1992
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 86
"As soon as you try to apply logic to
systematics you really get in trouble."
J. Camerini, 1992
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 87
"Why take my word for it? What do I know?"
E. Sober, 1992
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 88
"My mind isn't anywhere at all."
E. Sober, 1992
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 89
"Phylogenetics is an intention,
not a technique."
G. C. Mayer, 1992
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 90
"There are no numerical pheneticists
anymore, but there are psychopheneticists."
G. C. Mayer, 1992
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 91
"The species tree is not the species tree."
G. C. Mayer, 1992
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 92
"There are always more than two theories."
E. Sober, 1992
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 93
"It's a real mystery to me."
E. Sober, 1992
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 94
"The Beatles were not continental
obscurantists."
G. C. Mayer, 1992
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 95
"Put something in Latin and
people will misunderstand it."
J. Wills, 1992
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 96
"Luckily, I know which one
is the real truth."
A. Dickerman, 1992
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 97
"It's sometimes interesting to know how other
people destroyed their rivals and became rich
and famous in spite of having nothing to say."
G. C. Mayer, 1992
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 98
"I'm very excited about my ets."
J. Wills, 1992
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 99
"Everything becomes circular when
you truly understand it."
G. C. Mayer, 1992
WISCONSIN STUDIES IN
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOSYSTEMATICS No. 100
"Give that duck a beer."
G. C. Mayer, 1992
Acknowledgements
The publication of Wisconsin Studies in Experimental Psychosystematics was supported by the National Science Foundation (DIR-9103325).
