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  • Philosophy used to be a field that had content, but then natural philosophy became physics, and physics has only continued to make inroads. Every time theres a leap in physics, it encroaches on these areas that philosophers have carefully sequestered away to themselves, and so then you have this natural resentment on the part of philosophers.

    "Has Physics Made Philosophy and Religion Obsolete?". Interview with Ross Andersen, www.theatlantic.com. Apr 23, 2012.