As is well known physicists rarely take philoso0hers arguments and positions about science seriously. There are 3 rationales:
1. Agnostisism.
Physicists laugh off serious philosophical arguments naively seeing them as no brainers because they cannot break off their prejudices about the entities they deal of off positivistic thinking to more logical non empirical syllogism
2. Extreme Superiority as sector/discilline leaders.
This happens in every sector. Accomplished and higher in hierarchy individuals believe "we are the best sector/field" or others are inferior. Physicists take to the extreme and polarizevwith philoso0hers because its easy to ground their superiority because of pilsr opposite criteria of success yet similar domain
3. Some rationality
Physicists strive to get strictly assessed results, are tested in the applicability of their funds while philosophers argue in an Abstract context. Thus physicists find that dismissing philosophy's attack is a rational justified stance.
Also physicists believe philosophers have simply a negative (destructive) agenda towards physics, which has some weight
Neitzsche wrote about the intellectual superiority or philosophy to physics in Beyond Good & Evil. Then again, he went mad and passed away prematurely so that might undermine his argument to some extent.
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