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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" > <channel> <title>Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy</title> <atom:link href="https://iep.utm.edu/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /> <link>https://iep.utm.edu</link> <description>An encyclopedia of philosophy articles written by professional philosophers.</description> <lastBuildDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2025 19:23:45 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en-US</language> <sy:updatePeriod> hourly </sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency> 1 </sy:updateFrequency> <generator>https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2</generator> <item> <title>Epistemic Injustice</title> <link>https://iep.utm.edu/epistemic-injustice/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[IEP Author]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 06 Feb 2025 04:49:36 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://iep.utm.edu/?p=40429</guid> <description><![CDATA[Epistemic Injustice The term “epistemic injustice” refers to the existence of a distinctive type of injustice in which a wrong is done to someone specifically in their capacity as a knower. Philosophers working at the intersection of epistemology and ethics under the general umbrella of virtue ethics have recognized that individuals are not given adequate &#8230; <a href="https://iep.utm.edu/epistemic-injustice/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Epistemic Injustice</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description> </item> <item> <title>Postmodernism</title> <link>https://iep.utm.edu/postmodernism/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[IEP Author]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 04 Feb 2025 01:49:15 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Continental Philosophy]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://iep.utm.edu/?p=40383</guid> <description><![CDATA[Postmodernism Postmodernism is a style of doing philosophy that is often distinguished from the analytic style. The Postmodern era is the time period when postmodernism was popular, especially in Europe. Many scholars struggle to provide a definition that characterizes postmodernism. The fact that it lacks a unique identifying name but is called “post”—meaning that it &#8230; <a href="https://iep.utm.edu/postmodernism/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Postmodernism</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description> </item> <item> <title>Metaphysics of Quantum Gravity</title> <link>https://iep.utm.edu/m-quantum-gravity/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[IEP Author]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 06 Dec 2024 19:34:38 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Metaphysics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Philosophy of Science]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://iep.utm.edu/?p=40048</guid> <description><![CDATA[Metaphysics of Quantum Gravity The metaphysics of quantum gravity explores metaphysical issues related to research programs in theoretical physics clustered under the term quantum gravity. These research programs aim at the formulation of a theory that reconciles the theory of general relativity with quantum theory. The goal is not necessarily to come up with a &#8230; <a href="https://iep.utm.edu/m-quantum-gravity/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Metaphysics of Quantum Gravity</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description> </item> <item> <title>Being</title> <link>https://iep.utm.edu/being/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[IEP Author]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 05 Dec 2024 21:32:06 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Metaphysics]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://iep.utm.edu/?p=40035</guid> <description><![CDATA[Being From virtually the beginning of the Western tradition, philosophers have at least sporadically recognized that being is the primordial issue in philosophy. It is such because every theoretical sentence is implicitly or explicitly governed by a theoretical operator including a conjugated form of the verb “to be,” hence, everything we think or talk about &#8230; <a href="https://iep.utm.edu/being/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Being</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description> </item> <item> <title>Franz Brentano</title> <link>https://iep.utm.edu/brentano/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[IEP Author]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2024 03:54:26 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[19th Century European]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://iep.utm.edu/?p=39876</guid> <description><![CDATA[Franz Brentano (1838-1917) Franz Brentano was a major philosopher of the second half of the 19th century who had a strong impact on the development of early phenomenology and analytic philosophy of mind. Brentano’s influence on students such as Karl Stumpf and Edmund Husserl was extensive, but Sigmund Freud was also much inspired by Brentano’s &#8230; <a href="https://iep.utm.edu/brentano/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Franz Brentano</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description> </item> <item> <title>Definition of Art</title> <link>https://iep.utm.edu/definition-of-art/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[IEP Author]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 16 Oct 2024 16:37:38 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Aesthetics]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://iep.utm.edu/?p=39698</guid> <description><![CDATA[The Definition of Art A definition of art attempts to spell out what the word “art” means. In everyday life, we sometimes debate whether something qualifies as art: Can video games be considered artworks? Should my 6-year-old painting belong to the same category as Wallis&#8217; Hold House Port Mear Square Island (see picture)? Is the &#8230; <a href="https://iep.utm.edu/definition-of-art/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Definition of Art</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description> </item> <item> <title>Al-Ghazālī</title> <link>https://iep.utm.edu/al-ghazali/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[IEP Author]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2024 06:20:58 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Islamic Philosophy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Philosophers]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://iep.utm.edu/?p=39596</guid> <description><![CDATA[Al-Ghazālī (c. 1056–1111) Al-Ghazālī did not regard himself as a philosopher, given that during his period in Islamic intellectual history, philosophy was associated with the Aristotelian tradition promulgated primarily by Avicenna (Ibn Sina), and, for al-Ghazālī, Avicenna was undoubtedly considered to be an unbeliever whose philosophical views (such as his commitment to the eternity of &#8230; <a href="https://iep.utm.edu/al-ghazali/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Al-Ghazālī</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description> </item> <item> <title>Gewirth, Alan</title> <link>https://iep.utm.edu/gewirth/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[IEP Author]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 10 Sep 2024 05:05:17 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://iep.utm.edu/?p=39328</guid> <description><![CDATA[Alan Gewirth (1912-2004) Alan Gewirth was an American philosopher, famous for his argument that universal human rights can be rationally justified as the outcome of claims necessarily made by rational agents. According to this argument, first outlined in Reason and Morality (1978), all agents necessarily want to be successful in their actions, and since freedom &#8230; <a href="https://iep.utm.edu/gewirth/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Gewirth, Alan</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description> </item> <item> <title>William Hazlitt</title> <link>https://iep.utm.edu/hazlitt/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[IEP Author]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 23 Aug 2024 23:57:44 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[19th Century European]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://iep.utm.edu/?p=39123</guid> <description><![CDATA[William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830) William Hazlitt is best known as a brilliant essayist and critic. His essays include criticism of art, poetry, fiction, and drama. He wrote social and political commentary, portraits of major writers and political figures of his age, and a biography of his great hero, Napoleon. He had intended to follow &#8230; <a href="https://iep.utm.edu/hazlitt/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">William Hazlitt</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description> </item> <item> <title>Probability and Induction</title> <link>https://iep.utm.edu/probability-and-induction/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[IEP Author]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 21 Aug 2024 04:53:58 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Philosophy of Science]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://iep.utm.edu/?p=39027</guid> <description><![CDATA[]]></description> </item> </channel> </rss>