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The Institute for Practical Philosophy (Instituto de Filosofia Prática - IFP) is a research unit of the of the University of Beira Interior and the University of Évora supported by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), an institution of the Portuguese Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education.

The main purpose of the IFP is to develop research programs in the field of practical philosophy, that is, above all, in ethics, moral philosophy and political philosophy. The Institute pays particular attention to the study of works by philosophers of the phenomenological movement, without neglecting the works of important philosophers of all tendencies, specially from the areas of the philosophy of action, ethics, political and social philosophy.