academic-research
Academic Research Skill
Conduct comprehensive academic research mimicking Claude.ai's Research feature, specialized for philosophy, neuroscience, cognitive science, and theoretical CS.
Research Workflow
1. Scope the Query
Before searching, clarify:
- Domain: Philosophy / Neuroscience / Cognitive Science / Theoretical CS
- Depth: Quick (3-5 sources) | Standard (10-15) | Deep (20+)
- Focus: Empirical findings / Theoretical frameworks / Historical development / Current debates
If unclear, ask one clarifying question before proceeding.
2. Search Strategy
Use web search with academic-focused queries. Search in waves:
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philosophy-of-mind
Explore consciousness, mental states, and mind-body relations. Use for: hard problem of consciousness, qualia, intentionality, mental causation, personal identity, free will phenomenology, predictive processing, Free Energy Principle. Triggers: 'consciousness', 'qualia', 'mind', 'subjective experience', 'what it is like', 'hard problem', 'explanatory gap', 'zombie', 'Mary's room', 'Nagel', 'Chalmers', 'Dennett', 'Friston', 'Seth', 'Metzinger', 'phenomenal', 'access consciousness', 'self-model', 'interoception', 'predictive processing', 'active inference', 'Markov blanket'.
30metaphysics-ontology
Master metaphysics and ontology - the study of being, existence, and fundamental reality. Use for: existence, being, substance, identity, causation, modality, time, universals. Triggers: 'ontological', 'metaphysical', 'what exists', 'substance', 'essence', 'existence', 'being', 'identity', 'persistence', 'causation', 'modality', 'possible worlds', 'universals', 'particulars', 'properties', 'abstract objects', 'time', 'change', 'composition'.
15political-philosophy
Master political philosophy - justice, rights, liberty, democracy, state legitimacy. Use for: justice, political authority, rights, freedom, social contract. Triggers: 'justice', 'political', 'rights', 'liberty', 'freedom', 'democracy', 'Rawls', 'social contract', 'state', 'legitimacy', 'authority', 'equality', 'libertarianism', 'distributive justice', 'liberalism', 'communitarianism', 'republicanism'.
11dialectical-method
Master dialectical methodology - Socratic, Hegelian, and Marxist dialectics. Use for: dialogue, thesis-antithesis-synthesis, contradiction, development. Triggers: 'dialectic', 'dialectical', 'thesis antithesis', 'Aufhebung', 'sublation', 'Socratic', 'Hegelian', 'contradiction', 'synthesis', 'negation', 'development', 'elenchus'.
11philosophy-of-language
Master philosophy of language - meaning, reference, truth, speech acts. Use for: semantics, pragmatics, meaning theory, reference. Triggers: 'meaning', 'reference', 'Frege', 'sense', 'Kripke', 'speech act', 'semantics', 'pragmatics', 'truth conditions', 'propositions', 'names', 'descriptions', 'rigid designator', 'natural kind', 'context', 'indexical'.
9epistemology
Master epistemology - the theory of knowledge, justification, and belief. Use for: knowledge, justification, skepticism, sources of knowledge, epistemic virtue. Triggers: 'knowledge', 'epistemology', 'justification', 'belief', 'Gettier', 'skepticism', 'certainty', 'evidence', 'testimony', 'perception', 'reason', 'a priori', 'empirical', 'reliability', 'internalism', 'externalism', 'foundationalism', 'coherentism'.
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