This seems pretty similar to the experiences of some of my colleagues at university who were doing a Physics with Philosophy cross-discipline course (I was stud

This seems pretty similar to the experiences of some of my colleagues at university who were doing a Physics with Philosophy cross-discipline course (I was studying computational physics). The philosophy professors seemed to have little to no understanding of even basic physics, yet were quite happy to theorise. You'd think they might have at least run their ideas by some physics professors (there were plenty of them in our dept. who were probably wacky enough to humour them) before doing lectures and seminars on them. Of course, this was York ("only" in the top ~10 UK unis), not Oxford (top 2-3).