It should now be clear why the method of Philosophy is so different from that of the natural sciences. Experiments are not made, because they would be utterly useless.
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We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science, but science of today is in danger of losing much of the natural philosophy aspect.
Philosophy was once considered science.
Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.
The scientists often have more unfettered imaginations than current philosophers do. Relativity theory came as a complete surprise to philosophers, and so did quantum mechanics, and so did other things.
I think philosophers can do things akin to theoretical scientists, in that, having read about empirical data, they too can think of what hypotheses and theories might account for that data. So there's a continuity between philosophy and science in that way.
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.
When the scientific method came into being, it gave us a new window on the truth; namely, a method by laboratory-controlled experiments to winnow true hypotheses from false ones.
With science, there is this culture of experimentation, and most of the time, those experiments fail.
Philosophy is altogether less pure now. It's been impurified by science and social science and history.
Scientific experiments are expensive, and people are entitled to know about them if they want to. I think it is very difficult to convey ideas.