Philosophy

at least in his use of language-- ethics and aesthetics certainly aren't dead and physics gives us few answers there.

But, while physics has given us marvelously useful things it's still just navel gazing when dealing with the infinite size of the universe or quarks on the other end of the scale. Didn't Heisenberg say something about how everything depends on measuring things that change when being measured? That's as metaphysical as it gets.

Wasn't Einstein waxing philosophical toward the end when he couldn't synthesize his two great theories? So far, every attempt to do so has resulted in some amazingly complex bullshit that Aristotle would have fun dissecting for what it is.

Now for the annoying truth of the matter-- some people are so full of themselves, or have to find something to say in a weekly press release, that they lose sight of the goal. Should scientists and philosophers, and even theologians, work together on a problem rather than spend time attacking each other we might see some progress.