How, if at all, does philosophy differ from other forms of inquiry?

Question: How, if at all, does philosophy differ from other forms of inquiry!?
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i happen to disagree with Red!.

And i think that this is a particular,virile and rather philosophically naive kind-of-nihilism(!)!.
Big,long winded words i guess!.But they are true,as far as i can make out!.

philosophy should differ from others,by being critical!.For a problem requires that we find it insoluble,or we do not!.And some soluble problems have not really,critically,been analysed and "opened up"!.
Take this current and massively expensive physics experiment that is on-going in geneva,switzeland!.One would guess that even Red would admit that to find (the correct)reason how/why the universe Started,would be very,very important!.
So,as far as i have listened to the independent,and worldwide news(of this present experiment),it would seem-it is a fact that the experiment is unresolved;that is,they have not found the "higgs bosons",yet,that will confirm the experiment AND thus confirm the (whole)big bang THEORY!
So,in view that it has not been confirmed yet,my question is-what is the previous Theory,that exactly previous one that should be "the theory of how the universe started(physics theory,only,please!)!?
i for one am "pushed"to name THE CURRENT or even the widely-held previous one!
So much for our current (possibly)physical or other,world Theory!

i want to say that i think we can get an analogy here;philosophy has somehow wrongly aquired this mystical-sort-of-know-all-type of knowledge(and i have only recently written here about the philosophic "puzzle-answerers"who think like this)!.
Philosophy should be critical;critical about itself,firstly,and especially critical about realistic things like global warming,etc!.
It should also be critical JUST BECAUSE there are millions of impressionable students "out there" who,when they come up against a problem,usually consult a (wiki-)encyclopedia;this is o!.k!.for a start-BUT only a start!.
Too many students and too many so-called teachers,expect that the encyclopedias to answer everything-have i not given a current example where they cannot!?
Anyway,any student would be wise to further their (so-called)critical stance,their (so-called-critical studying(!)
As i say;they should learn to spell"criticism"!.
And they could not start better if they got off their college butts and sourced the bookwork already done by one of the best,deceased,but critically rational philosophers "around"!.
Sir Karl Popper,et al!.(=and all,for there are some others who completely and publically agree/d with his critical,effective method)!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Socrates (not the first philosopher, but a great one,) started the ball rolling by saying the questions are more important than the answers!. Science calls this method and continues to use it to this day!. If philosophy never got past Socrates, and just kept using his methods it wouldn't be philosophy anymore!. Philosophy has something in common with high fashion, in that changing and being radical (often the same radical as twelve or twenty years ago,) is essential to the art!.

Philosophy is rebellion against assumptions!. Inquiry at it's most adolescent!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Philosophy for me is an adventure!. A search for meanings one which can last through out this life and all lives to come through Eternity if I survive!.

Science ends its reason-search in the hypothesis of a First Cause!. Religion does not stop in its flight of faith until it is sure of a God of salvation!. The discriminating study of science logically suggests the reality and existence of an Absolute!. Religion believes unreservedly in the existence and reality of a God who fosters personality survival!. What metaphysics fails utterly in doing, and what even philosophy fails partially in doing, revelation does; that is, affirms that this First Cause of science and religion's God of salvation are one and the same Deity!.Page 1106-6 http://www!.urantia!.org/papers/paper101!.h!.!.!.

The pursuit of knowledge constitutes science; the search for wisdom is philosophy; the love for God is religion; the hunger for truth is a revelation!. But it is the indwelling Thought Adjuster that attaches the feeling of reality to man's spiritual insight into the cosmos!.Page 1122-8 http://www!.urantia!.org/papers/paper102!.h!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

It's just sort of a label that got tacked on!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

!.!.!.there is no, right or wrong answer!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com