In everyday language, intention means to have a conscious aim, purpose or design to one’s actions. There is clearly a good deal of philosophical (and indeed legal) debate over the term intention and its relationship to concepts such as free will....

Intention Philosophical work on intention is motivated by three general concerns. First, philosophers of action want to understand what it is for an event to be an intentional action and how intentional actions are produced by their agents. They have...

An agent's intention in performing an action is their specific purpose in doing so, the end or goal they aim at, or intend to accomplish. Whether an action is successful or unsuccessful depends at least on whether the intended result was brought about....

STRAIGHT TALKING Gary Zukav, of The Dancing Wu Li Masters and The Seat of the Soul fame, says that the intention of an action is all-important. One's intentions are governed by one's value system. If one has high ethical standards, the intentions behind...

Modern editorial writers have lost a sense of intention in their practice. They have become so ensnared by mundane matters that they have forgotten to concentrate on their original aims. The lack of intention is quite in evidence in the journalistic prioritization of style...

Chris Noth of "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" is looking on the bright side of an unusual deal that next season puts the drama on the USA cable channel ahead of its NBC airing."Cable is probably the future. They're paying a lot more attention to...

To decide whether Jose Padilla and two other men are guilty of supporting terrorism, jurors are going to have to get inside their heads. Was Padilla the "star recruit" of a terror support cell, or just a recent convert to Islam learning Arabic and the...