"philosophical apparatus" is a perfectly acceptable term to use in written English.
It is a phrase used to refer to the system of thought, ideas, and methods a philosopher or school of thought uses to approach their philosophical inquiries. For example, one might say "Heidegger's philosophical apparatus focused heavily on the concept of Being."
You can see his point — Kathleen, the English outsider in "Tycoon," is an attempt, based on a real person, Fitzgerald's last lover, Sheilah Graham, to come up with a female character who is both dream girl and wise woman — but does so plain a point need so elaborate a philosophical apparatus?
Wyclif's heretical theses concerning the Eucharist are the logical consequence of the application of this philosophical apparatus to the problem of the real presence of the body of Christ in the consecrated host.
Not only are the terms Anderson employs systematically misleading to contemporary readers; his work belongs to a world of higher philosophical ambition, a world in which philosophy could aspire to a central role in cultural affairs, unlike the "rickety philosophical apparatus" and the whole "intellectual mess" that he saw in mid-century philosophy (SEP, 187 88).
Mr. Daisey's ambitious new show traces the philosophical roots of our metastasizing contemporary security apparatus back to the early days of the cold war, when the newly energized war machine was kept in a state of tense alert, the better to rout the Commies should they suddenly spring into action and swamp American shores.
But if rules themselves do not give life to words but require a similar explanation for what gives them life if there must be, in effect, rules that tell one how to apply the rules then there is a useless regress and no philosophical or explanatory value in the assumption of an apparatus of internal rules and standards.
Its theoretical apparatus has provided a useful framework for the philosophical treatment of attention's relationship to consciousness (Hine, 2010).
The result was a brand of idealist philosophical thought that combined the Anglo-Saxon penchant for empirical study with a vocabulary and conceptual apparatus borrowed from the continent.
Description of the apparatus,….
Ms. Rea is philosophical.
