Adjective : philosophical studies.    From Dictionary.com. 

But being pernicious is not the same thing as being non-philosophical.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Putting Heidegger in the library’s grave of discarded lies] Reference

In al-Qirqisani's main published non-philosophical work, the Book On the Lights and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Influence of Arabic and Islamic Philosophy on Judaic Thought] Reference

But even in making everyday, non-philosophical statements, I employ a plurality of expressions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gilbert Ryle] Reference

The same collection of ideas is found in non-philosophical writings, for example, the grammatical treatise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Abraham Ibn Ezra] Reference

Those kind of non-philosophical things, really practical, life experience things, help me to direct a film.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mike chats to screenwriter-turned director Guillermo Arriaga for THE BURNING PLAIN! | Obsessed With Film] Reference

That way the public/electoral response has the least likelihood of being blamed on non-philosophical factors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Belmont Club » Double Down] Reference

Philosophy was not the topic, but our approach to non-philosophical topics may turn on philosophical presuppositions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Police Department Psychological Consulting Contract Terminated Because of CEO’s Anti-Homosexuality Political Activity:] Reference

The results of a particular set of values are more important to most non-philosophical people than their intellectual underpinnings.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Weak Man] Reference

Here, as elsewhere, the boundaries between philosophy and non-philosophical theorising in relation to an empirical science are vague.    From Wordnik.com.  [Social Institutions] Reference

In making everyday (non-philosophical) statements, or in asking ordinary factual questions, or in giving concrete, practical advice I am like.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gilbert Ryle] Reference

The first 50 or 100 pages are slow going (nothing unusual for a thick Stephenson book); after that, even the non-philosophical may be captivated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stromata Blog:] Reference

In the case of non-philosophical questions, even if the answer is unknown, the means for discovering the answer is known, or accepted, by most people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Isaiah Berlin] Reference

For those steeped in traditional philosophy, it is easy to dismiss Addams 'writings as non-philosophical if the full sweep of her projects is not considered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jane Addams] Reference

Thus the question about the power of the Nocturnal Council has significant implications for our evaluation of the ethical capacities of non-philosophical citizens.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plato on utopia] Reference

Thus in non-philosophical Greek of the fifth century the soul is treated as the bearer of moral qualities, and also as responsible for practical thought and cognition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ancient Theories of Soul] Reference

˜Exists™: C. J.F.Williams has challenged advocates of an actuality sense of ˜exists™ to give a genuine non-philosophical example in which ˜exists™ is predicated of an individual.    From Wordnik.com.  [Existence] Reference

The one genre in which Erasmus wrote no works at all was philosophy, though he often cited ancient philosophers and dealt (normally in a non-philosophical way) with several intellectual problems of interest to philosophers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Desiderius Erasmus] Reference

This sort of ˜reasoning™ is precisely the sort of thing that Maimonides (in the extended critique of Kalam which he offers in his Guide of the Perplexed) lambastes as a fanciful, non-philosophical mode of pseudo-reasoning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saadya [Saadiah]] Reference

But in such cases Gassendi is generally clear about non-philosophical motives, introducing such corrections or additions to his reasoned or empirically demonstrated views as are necessary by the dictates of faith or Scripture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pierre Gassendi] Reference

While modalism hasn't been explicitly defended in recent analytic philosophical theology, it haunts many recent discussions of the Trinity by philosophers and theologians, and seems important to non-philosophical thinking about the Trinity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trinity] Reference

His renewal of the Kantian heritage has something in common with the post-Kantian tactic of delegating to non-philosophical discourses an authority no longer sustainable within the monological meta-language traditionally attributed to philosophy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Post-Secular Conviviality] Reference

Not all that long ago the recognized divisions of philosophy were logic, metaphysics, and ethics, three territories whose frontiers had been authoritatively drawn by Aristotle (the subjects named in his other main treatises, physics and politics, for example, having come under new, non-philosophical management).    From Wordnik.com.  [Locker Room Metaphysics] Reference

“The best grounds for accepting contextualism concerning knowledge attributions come from how knowledge-attributing (and knowledge-denying) sentences are used in ordinary, non-philosophical talk: What ordinary speakers will count as ˜knowledge™ in some non-philosophical contexts they will deny is such in others”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epistemic Contextualism] Reference

Although scholars disagree about the extent of the divergence between the early Greek philosophers and their non-philosophical predecessors and contemporaries, it seems evident that Presocratic thought exhibits a significant difference not only in its understanding of the nature of the world, but also in its view of the sort of explanation of it that is possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Presocratic Philosophy] Reference

You called her an "old-fashioned working girl, a non-philosophical American free-enterpriser.".    From Wordnik.com. Reference

A similar opposite is "idealism," which also a number of unrelated non-philosophical definitions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Does the difference correlate with any other philosophical or non-philosophical traits or behavior?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Splintered Mind] Reference

(with a few notable exceptions such as Peter Singer) he was widely read by the non-philosophical public.    From Wordnik.com.  [Russell's Moral Philosophy] Reference

I end by yawning like any simple non-philosophical mortal in the face of all this heaviness and pedantry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amiel's Journal] Reference

Original also was the theory that he now suggested, which had at least the merit of being thinkable even by non-philosophical minds.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume II: The Beginnings of Modern Science] Reference

Kant and of his more speculative successors, to observe that he begins with the recognition of certain non-philosophical truths -- those of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Approach to Philosophy] Reference

The superstition that philosophical idealism pivots around a belief in moral, that is in social ideals, arose with the German non-philosophical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Feuerbach: The roots of the socialist philosophy] Reference

"That which I do very strongly object to is the habit, which a great many non-philosophical materialists unfortunately fall into, of forgetting all these very obvious considerations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Matter A Criticism of Professor Haeckel's 'Riddle of the Universe'] Reference

2) The theory of evolution (ToE; meaning Darwinian) is easier for non-philosophical materialists to accept than philosophical materialism (phyN).    From Wordnik.com.  [Behe's bad math - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

"scientific" non-philosophical treatments of psychology.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference

If there is a non-philosophical statement, then there is another thread that will help you out: http: / / www. wrongplanet.net / postt92895. html.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wrong Planet Asperger / Autism Forums] Reference