I am referring primarily to the philosophy of science which depends on epistemology and metaphysics; even ontology.
Look, dmap.
I understand what you are saying about "philosophy of science", like with epistemology, metaphysics, ontology, and so on.
They all did contribute to science and various stages in history, and we did get some more ideas to make science, objective.
But today, science has moved away from all philosophies.
If you go to any of lecture in metaphysics, ontology and epistemology, they are ALL JUST TALK. They constant argue back and for, so they are just pointless yap, yap, yap, babble, babble, babble.
They DO NO active investigation on nature or reality, they look for no verifiable evidences, they do no real-world testings or experiments.
In the last decade or so, I have come to the conclusion that philosophy, all philosophies, include those so called "philosophy of science", do nothing but talk on pointless things, which have no real values, other than to hear egotistic philosophies rant the importance of their schools of thoughts.
I don't consider myself a scientist, but my background in civil engineer and later in computer science, do require me to have some areas of knowledge of physics and mathematics, have taught me the values of science that have real world application.
In these two courses, civil and computer, I did not do a single lecture on philosophy, because philosophy has no real world application. If I was to do a whole semester on any philosophy, I would be wasting my times on subject that don't contribute anything at all.
I think people who focused too much on philosophy, cannot see the big or little pictures, because they are too focus on the abstract values of their own schools, while they ignore reality and nature itself.
Today philosophers are nothing more than pompous armchair-sitting jack-a55es, especially those metaphysicians.
As you can see, I don't like metaphysics, because it is now useless, overrated and outdated philosophy.