/lit/ - Literature

An argument between these 6 would be priceless

If I want to get a good grasp at the whole of western philosophy canon, is it best to just read the big authors in chronological order? Or can I learn them in the order that I find more interesting?

Can I, say, go straight into Nietzsche or Schopenhauer without having read Plato or Kant?

If a particular order is best, which one would it be?

Philosophers historically have lived alongside scientists of their eras.

Those scientists generated predictive models of nature that can be verified by anyone that take the same steps as them. The fact that science gave us predictive power allowed us to create technology and civilization.

The philosophers have never, and will never generate any predictive models of anything, because they only write about opinions that can't be tested or verified.

It is the greatest collective hysteria to elevate Philosophy to the same level of importance as Science.

Is there any book that can seriously refute this?
A book that proves that through pure philosophy, without science, any predictive model of reality could be attained?

Can you develop the cure for cancer purely by philosophizing hard enough, without any scientific empirism?