Philosophers of physics, and most other philosophers, are far removed from this picture: they work on well-defined questions with logical rigor and with input from the most recent developments in science and from the immediate experiences of the senses. How the practice and the image of philosophy have diverged so wildly is a subject for an entirely different book, but one part of the answer probably lies in the split between the two major branches of modern Western philosophy, analytic and Continental philosophy.
