New team doctor, a philosophical type (13)
I believe the answer is:
metaphysician
'new' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't judge whether this works.
'team doctor a philosophical type' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
an anagram of 'team' is 'meta' which is within the answer.
'doctor' could be 'physician' (synonyms) and 'physician' is present in the answer.
This accounts for all the letters.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for metaphysician that I've seen before include "Kant, for one" , "One skilled in philosophical groundworks" .)