What is the characteristic objective difference in objectively observable attitudes and research styles between a philosopher of physics and a theoretical physicist?
Was Ernst Mach more of a philosopher of physics or a theoretical physicist? What about Niels Bohr? David Bohm? John Bell? Julian Barbour? John Wheeler? Max Tegmark? Albert Einstein?
The difference I am alluding to isn't about formal academic titles like which university department one belongs to, but the difference mentioned in the following quote by Albert Einstein:
This independence created by philosophical insight is—in my opinion—the mark of distinction between a mere artisan or specialist and a real seeker after truth.
i.e. between an "artisan" and a "seeker", between a "rote symbol-pushing calculator" and a "contemplator".
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