Definition of "philosophical theory" [philosophical theory]

• A doctrine accepted by adherents to a philosophy (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "In this way St. Thomas, starting from the traditional concept which makes the sacred writer an organ of the Holy Ghost, explains the subordination of his faculties to the action of the Inspirer by the philosophical theory of the instrumental cause (Quodl.,"
• "Panpsychism is a philosophical theory which holds that everything in the universe, the inorganic world as well as the organic, has some degree of consciousness."
• "An immigration service, there was even a quasipolitical philosophical theory that went with it, one of Carlstein’s."