Most people sooner or later experience dilemmas or uncertainties involving questions of meaning, purpose, value, and fulfillment. Such questions emerge in the context of relationships, career, momentous change, personal responsibility, aspiration or disappointment, and decision-making under risk or potential conflict of interest. Normal problems of living are not regarded as “diseases”; rather,...

We describe an ontology of philosophy that is designed to help navigation through philosophical literature, including literature in the form of encyclopedia articles and textbooks and in both printed and digital forms. The ontology is designed also to serve integration and structuring of philosophical literature, and in the long term also to support reasoning about the provenance and contents o...

Preference is a key area where analytic philosophy meets philosophical logic. I start with two related issues: reasons for preference, and changes in preference, first mentioned in von Wright’s book The Logic of Preference but not thoroughly explored there. I show how these two issues can be handled together in one dynamic logical framework, working with structured two-level models, and we inve...