Reddit mentions of Philosophical Problems of Quantum Physics

I guess Werner Heisenberg was just wasting his time writing Physics and Philosophy and Philosophical Problems of Quantum Physics.

One of the problems with reconciling natural science and the humanities is that academic specialization has made everyone regard their field as the axis of knowledge. Formerly, a guy like Kant was professor of astronomy, arithmetic, metaphysics, and literature; guys like Nietzsche (who was well read in the science of his day), Russell, Heisenberg, and Schrodinger, they all were raised in a school system where you read Newton's Principia (in Latin) alongside Aristotle's Metaphysics (in Greek) in what we now call high school. That kind of education simply ceased as academia put a greater and greater emphasis on specialization and as our schools began looking more and more like factories (something Foucault documented fairly well in his Discipline & Punishment).

Arguing science can make do without philosophy or vice versa is equally silly, both historically and in terms of application. For example, apart of Gould's argument against Dawkins and others who conceive evolution in strict adaptationist terms is that they think evolution in the very terms of old metaphysics (notice how a lot of evolution papers claim things like "laughter is an adaptation to living in a group"? Yeah, Nietzsche had criticized that type of thinking and Gould followed suite in exploring exaptation). Gould was pretty familiar with continental philosophy (he leverages Foucault's work in his original article on exaptation), so it's difficult to conceive that his work on emphasizing the contingency of evolution wasn't influenced or abetted by that education.