"foundational philosophy" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to the underlying principles or beliefs that form the basis of a particular philosophy or ideology. Here is an example sentence using "foundational philosophy": "According to the company's foundational philosophy, the customer always comes first."
"The name itself carries the foundational philosophy: to receive the greatest result with little, but effective, effort," he says.
Babylonian astronomy gave us time, later mathematics; astronomy is, in one way or another, central to every foundational philosophy we know.
Although the methods at Homeboy are complex (there's counseling, tattoo-removal, a professional bakery and even the excellent Homegirl Cafe: and I've visited, thanks to Star Trek's Chase Masterson, who ardently volunteers for the organization), Boyle's foundational philosophy is simple: "Nothing stops a bullet like a job".
In section four I discuss feminist analyses of some foundational concepts within philosophy of biology and philosophy of science more generally, such as biological determinism and reductionism.
She believed epistemology was a foundational branch of philosophy and considered the advocacy of reason to be the single most significant aspect of her philosophy, stating, "I am not primarily an advocate of capitalism, but of egoism; and I am not primarily an advocate of egoism, but of reason.
Thus the question of the "concept of science" becomes "the chief question of logic and the foundational question of philosophy" (Cohen 1902: 445).
There is no mention of information theory or any of the more foundational work in philosophy of information in Kuipers (2007a), but the two disciplines certainly have overlapping domains.
Paul W. Taylor, in full Paul Warren Taylor (born November 19 , 1923 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. died October 14, 2015, Hamilton, New Jersey) American philosopher best known for his book Respect for Nature: A Theory of Environmental Ethics (1986), which promulgated the biocentric viewpoint in environmental ethics and was a foundational work of environmental philosophy.
René Descartes' rationalist system of philosophy is foundational for the Enlightenment in this regard.
A "radical" environmental philosophy challenges foundational assumptions and claims of canonical philosophy in the context of environmental issues.
But when it is stated thus baldly what the strategy is, two related worries should immediately arise, having to do with foundational issues in the philosophy of language.
