Why on earth is the entire last paragraph devoted to Lawrence Krauss’s musings on philosophy? It may represent a widespread attitude found among physicists, but

Why on earth is the entire last paragraph devoted to Lawrence Krauss’s musings on philosophy? It may represent a widespread attitude found among physicists, but not one many people with a background in both disciplines shares. In physics forums, the same dismissive attitude can also be found about pure math for which a use in physics has not yet been found. A fourth paragraph might talk about how any curriculum in financial engineering begins with an even bigger assumption than in physics that the big problems are already mostly understood, and that the rest is computation to fill in a few gaps. And yet this donor thinks the formal study of philosophy is important. My understanding of what he is saying about philosophy and discipline has to do with developing the capability to handle a large problem analytically. This is different than the type of discipline where you break things down into small problems then work through them individually. When Lawrence Krauss talks about philosophy, you get the impression that he thinks it is all people in coffee shops in black turtlenecks being awed by random thoughts rather than people doing anything formal or logically rigorous.