Adjective : philosophical studies.    From Dictionary.com. 

The Situations, if you like, is the nonphilosophical work which comes closest to philosophy: critical and political.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sartre at Seventy: An Interview] Reference

Perhaps a member of a gray and nonphilosophical profession, like that of the economist, can follow the same tradition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Economic Principals] Reference

The authors espouse the theory that causation in law is an essentially nonphilosophical, profession-oriented de - vice, heavily charged with common sense ideas on current meanings of causation.    From Wordnik.com.  [CAUSATION IN LAW] Reference

John Roberts's famous "umpire speech" showed the appeal of a nonphilosophical judicial philosophy, but his unexpected activist streak on the bench has shown how little we actually learned from his confirmation process.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elena Kagan Must Talk] Reference

A philosophical approach to these phenomena raises some particular kinds of questions that often are not easily raised in nonphilosophical texts.    From Wordnik.com.  [feminist blogs] Reference

But even worse, from the perspective of selectivity, is the attention Burns pays to personal, nonpolitical, nonphilosophical material, which has no (or certainly a more muted) place in a study of Rand and the American Right.    From Wordnik.com.  [Capitalism Magazine] Reference

Anyone who wishes to become acquainted with the legends and lore, the extravaganzas, fantasies, and fictions about angels can do so by going to Gustav Davidson’s A Dictionary of Angels, in which the bibliography of books about angels, most of them nontheological and nonphilosophical, takes up twenty-four pages.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Angels and Us] Reference

In recent years these hazards have somewhat diminished (though not disappeared), largely owing to the influence of analytic or linguistic philoso - phers, whose high standards of rigor both in definition and in argument, and whose concern to keep clear the distinction between normative and nonnormative dis - course, have led many aestheticians to adopt one or the other sense, either by stipulation or by an appeal to what they take to be ordinary (i.e., established nonphilosophical) usage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference