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....

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...

The worst moment of last season for Bobby Rahal _ and one of the worst of his life _ came hours before the start of the opening race at Homestead-Miami Speedway.Rookie Paul Dana crashed into the nearly stopped car of Ed Carpenter, who had brought...