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    J. A. Burgess ; A. E. Fraser ; F. F. Sani ; D. Vick ; B. D. Hauer ; J. P. Davis ; M. R. Freeman
    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
    Published 2013
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    Publication Date:
    2013-01-19
    Publisher:
    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
    Print ISSN:
    0036-8075
    Electronic ISSN:
    1095-9203
    Topics:
    Biology
    Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Computer Science
    Medicine
    Natural Sciences in General
    Physics
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    http://www.aaas.org/

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    J. E. Losby ; F. Fani Sani ; D. T. Grandmont ; Z. Diao ; M. Belov ; J. A. Burgess ; S. R. Compton ; W. K. Hiebert ; D. Vick ; K. Mohammad ; E. Salimi ; G. E. Bridges ; D. J. Thomson ; M. R. Freeman
    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
    Published 2015
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    Publication Date:
    2015-11-14
    Publisher:
    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
    Print ISSN:
    0036-8075
    Electronic ISSN:
    1095-9203
    Topics:
    Biology
    Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Computer Science
    Medicine
    Natural Sciences in General
    Physics
    Published by:
    http://www.aaas.org/

    Latest Papers from Table of Contents or Articles in Press
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    BURGESS, J. A. ; TAWIA, S. A.

    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    Published 1996
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    ISSN:
    1467-8519
    Source:
    Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics:
    Medicine
    Philosophy
    Notes:
    In this paper we attempt to sharpen and to provide an answer to the question of when human beings first become conscious. Since it is relatively uncontentious that a capacity for raw sensation precedes and underpins all more sophisticated mental capacities, our question is tantamount to asking when human beings first have experiences with sensational content. Two interconnected features of our argument are crucial. First, we argue that experiences with sensational content are supervenient on facts about electrical activity in the cerebral cortex which can be ascertained through EEG readings. Second, we isolate from other notions of a‘functioning brain’that which is required to underpin the view that a cortex is functioning in a way which could give rise to rudimentary conscious experiences. We investigate the development in the human fetus of the anatomical and chemical pathways which underpin (immature) cortical activity and the growth and maturation of the electrical circuitry specifically associated with sensational content in adult experience. We conclude (tentatively) that a fetus becomes conscious at about 30 to 35 weeks after conception; an answer based on a careful analysis of EEG readings at various stages of cortical development. Finally, we survey the possible ethical ramifications of our answer.
    Type of Medium:
    Electronic Resource
    URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8519.1996.tb00100.x

    Articles: DFG German National Licenses
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    BURGESS, J. A. ; HUMBERSTONE, I. L.

    Dordrecht : Periodicals Archive Online (PAO)
    Published 1987
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    ISSN:
    0165-0106
    Topics:
    Philosophy
    URL:
    http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pao:&rft_dat=xri:pao:article:n420-1987-027-00-000002

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    Burgess, J. A. ; Humberstone, I. L.
    Springer
    Published 1987
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    ISSN:
    1572-8420
    Source:
    Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics:
    Philosophy
    Type of Medium:
    Electronic Resource
    URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00175369

    Articles: DFG German National Licenses
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    Burgess, J. A.
    Springer
    Published 1997
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    ISSN:
    1573-0433
    Source:
    Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics:
    Philosophy
    Notes:
    Abstract For the sentences of languages that contain operators that express the concepts of definiteness and indefiniteness, there is an unavoidable tension between a truth-theoretic semantics that delivers truth conditions for those sentences that capture their propositional contents and any model-theoretic semantics that has a story to tell about how indetifiniteness in a constituent affects the semantic value of sentences which imbed it. But semantic theories of both kinds play essential roles, so the tension needs to be resolved. I argue that it is the truth theory which correctly characterises the notion of truth, per se. When we take into account the considerations required to bring model theory into harmony with truth theory, those considerations undermine the arguments standardly used to motivate supervaluational model theories designed to validate classical logic. But those considerations also show that celebration would be premature for advocates of the most frequently encountered rival approach – many-valued model theory.
    Type of Medium:
    Electronic Resource
    URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1017935214210

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    BURGESS, J. A.

    Minneapolis : Periodicals Archive Online (PAO)
    Published 1990
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    ISSN:
    0031-8116
    Topics:
    Philosophy
    URL:
    http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pao:&rft_dat=xri:pao:article:6193-1990-059-03-000002

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    Burgess, J. A.
    Springer
    Published 1990
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    ISSN:
    1573-0964
    Source:
    Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics:
    Natural Sciences in General
    Philosophy
    Type of Medium:
    Electronic Resource
    URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00484836

    Articles: DFG German National Licenses
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    Burgess, J. A.
    Springer
    Published 1990
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    ISSN:
    1573-0883
    Source:
    Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics:
    Philosophy
    Type of Medium:
    Electronic Resource
    URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00355745

    Articles: DFG German National Licenses