What's the point of philosophy any more?

[I_am_not_mafia]

To people like Matthilda, I'd say this.  In a fundamentally uncertain universe, what is knowledge?  We don't know what an electron or a photon really are, and yet. . . there's no room for philosophy?

I actually think that there is room for philosophy, and in fact I stated in the OP that some really useful papers that I often refer to turned out to be published in journals with 'philosophy' in the title. But my main point is that philosophy could actually be more useful as an overview of the different branches bringing together recent findings with a view to painting a bigger picture of what's going on and communicating this back to the scientists doing the specialist grunt work. At the moment the scientists are the ones doing the most useful philosophy and this isn't even seen as philosophy any more but science.