philosophy-research-guide

npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill philosophy-research-guide --agent claude-code

Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.

# Philosophy Research Guide A skill for conducting rigorous philosophical research, from constructing arguments and analyzing texts to writing publishable philosophy papers. Covers major subfields, argumentation methods, and the distinctive methodology of philosophical inquiry. ## Philosophical Argumentation ### Argument Structure and Evaluation Every philosophical argument can be reconstructed in standard form: ``` Premise 1: All knowledge requires justification. (epistemic principle) Premise 2: Sensory experience alone cannot provide certainty. (empirical claim) Premise 3: If knowledge requires certainty, then sensory experience is insufficient for knowledge. (conditional from P1, P2) Conclusion: Therefore, knowledge requires something beyond sensory experience. (from P1, P2, P3 by modus ponens) ``` ### Validity and Soundness Checks ```python def evaluate_argument(premises: list[str], conclusion: str, premises_true: list[bool], valid: bool) -> dict: """ Evaluate an argument's logical properties. An argument is: - Valid: if the conclusion follows necessarily from the premises - Sound: if it is valid AND all premises are true - Cogent (inductive): if premises make conclusion probab