Abstract This article offers a fresh assessment of the views American paleontologist and evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould on relation science religion. is best known for his celebrated notion “nonoverlapping magisteria,” which often seen in somewhat negative terms as inhibiting dialogue. However, result critique unificationist approach to knowledge developed Edward O. Wilson's Consilien...

PURPOSE To compare the Jay Sensitivity Sensor Probe (Jay Probe), a new microprocessor-based, pre-calibrated instrument, with well accepted methods used to evaluate sensitivity, i.e. tactile response to the Yeaple Probe, air blast (Schiff scale), and patient responses by Visual Analog Score (VAS). METHODS Jay Probe assessments were accomplished using several approaches. With a cohort of 12 sub...

Requests for reprints should be addressed to David C. Plaut, Mellon Institute 115-CNBC, Carnegie Mellon University, 4400 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-2683, USA. E-mail: plaut6cmu.edu This work was supported Žnancially by the NIH/NIMH (Grant MH47566) and by the McDonnell-Pew Program in Cognitive Neuroscience (Grant T89-01245-016). I thank Marlene Behrmann, Matt Lambon Ralph, Jay McClelland...