I think the scoreboard indicates differently. I've never once come across a meaningful problem outside of philosophy addressed or solved by a philosopher
What's a pure philosopher? Are Frege and Decartes not philosophers because they also did math? Does Alan Turing count? What about Popper and Kuhn? Are they philosophy enough for the philosopher club? Where, when, how and by whom do you think the concept of 'empirical science' was derived?
To be clear, everyone, including scientists, do philosophy every single day. You don't think Darwin did some philosophy in on the origin of species?
What is a pure philosopher??!? I'm not arguing the specificity of the question, I'm saying that question is nonsensical.
One group can and does test hypotheses, the other does not
Like I could literally go forever because most breakthrough practitioners started as philosophers- note the PhDs
“Doctor of Philosophy”
I mean JFC people this is basic science history
But you know I’m sure that won’t satisfy somebody who doesn’t even understand the epistemological distinction between what a philosopher is or does and what somebody who’s actually doing experimental testing that turns into something great is because the distinction is basically zero
Please provide a link or otherwise reference to this scoreboard
Unless you were writing metaphorically in which case you’ll need to write a lot more to describe it
edit: I think often theoreticians are unable to appreciate the constraints or nuance of actually "doing it" so frequently their "solutions" don't survive impact with reality
The “platonic wheel” is not a concern for someone trying to make money selling tires - but nor do those tires by being a function of successful commerce describe a “platonic wheel”
Perhaps the platonic wheel is in some intersectional saddle point between theory and practice but to say that only that which is commonly adopted has measure ignores the philosophical genesis that precedes and impregnates the production process.