The phrase 'philosophical exploration' is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to an exploration or examination of complex and abstract concepts, such as human thought and behavior. For example, you could write, "My thesis focuses on philosophical exploration of the ethical implications of cloning technology."
No pedantic obscurity; just a meaningful and rewarding philosophical exploration.
It's all good-natured ribbing, and in keeping with the evening's atmosphere of affable sonic and philosophical exploration.
Explaining his segue into the arts, Dr. Tada said both playwriting and research enabled philosophical exploration and self-expression.
His approach to image-making is, however, rooted less in documentation or science than in a personal, even philosophical exploration of nature.
Before his book The Emotions: A Philosophical Exploration (2000), there had been little serious philosophy on this topic, which was considered too subjective for rigorous analysis.
The result is "a sustained philosophical exploration studded with passionate outbursts, a glimpse of a consciousness liberated from family and social expectations," Elizabeth Schmidt wrote here in 1998.
There were no theories, no philosophical explorations, no examination of why.
In the context of ecology Wimsatt (1980) is one of the few philosophical explorations of the concept of randomness.
Philosophical explorations of the distinction have generated a number of interesting questions in philosophy of language and metaphysics.
His philosophical explorations of self and world led him to develop an epistemology of embodied perception and a non-dualistic account of mental and material life.
Just as the history of philosophical aesthetics subsequent to Plato and Aristotle and prior to Baumgarten represents a relatively thin canon, a similar judgment applies to philosophical explorations of the nature and fundamental concepts of architecture.
