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Also physicist. My beef is more with philosophy-of-science folks in particular. They think that we, physicists, really need them and their insights about how to do physics properly. For example they really like this meme:

reddit.com/r/badphilosophy/comments/gjz24v

Which is totally dishonest. (I tried to counter that with this https://imgur.com/a/zwDhfxJ , but that's not memey enough.)




It's not a coincidence that the left side (more positive to philosophy) and Born (whose quotes are more neutral) are also continental European, while the three critical examples (can add in Krauss, Hawking, and many others) come from Anglo-Americans. There's too often a pettiness in the latter (to an extent, also in your post) in which what look like fairly limited and contemporaneous gripes about academics in another field is given the trappings of some historically unbound and universal insight.

There's no inherent tension between science and philosophy; even Meermin's "shut up and calculate" is a philosophical position (instrumentalism), to say nothing of the philosophical, scientific and mathematical contributions of e.g. Poincaré, Helmholtz, Mach, Duhem, Peirce, Leibniz, Von Neumann, Jaynes etc. Even modern Anglo-American physicists contribute to and draw a lot from philosophy, e.g. Wheeler and Paul Anderson.




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