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Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Dr. James Fieser (general editor) of the University of Tennessee at Martin, together with Dr. Bradley Dowden (philosophy of science and logic editor), has put together this online compendium of information about philosophy. The encyclopedia can be searched or browsed by keywords or browsed via a timeline of philosophical movements and thinkers. In addition, the site features a selection of texts,...

https://iep.utm.edu/
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Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Ethics

Since 1995, the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy has been a source of peer-reviewed information about the field of philosophy. The encyclopedia is continuously updated by a variety of philosophy scholars, offering the public with an increasingly useful one-stop shop for major philosophy concepts. One highlight of the Internet Encyclopedia is this thorough page dedicated to Ethics, a field...

https://iep.utm.edu/ethics-and-contrastivism/
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Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Phenomenology

As the introduction to this entry of the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy explains, "phenomenology" is a movement in 20th century philosophy that takes as its central concern the experiencing subject. It is most fundamentally concerned, therefore, not with statement about an "objective" world, but with the subjective experiencing of that world. On this page of the IEP, a peer-reviewed academic...

https://iep.utm.edu/phenom/
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Edited by Edward N. Zalta, Consulting Associate Professor of Philosophy at Stanford, this site claims to be the first dynamic encyclopedia. Unlike standard reference works or CD-ROMS, each entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia is maintained and kept up to date by experts in the field. As a result, the entries and the Encyclopedia as a whole are responsive to new developments in the field. The...

https://plato.stanford.edu/