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Yes, that could be the case. It's an ongoing discussion, especially in topics on quantum mechanics. Somehow, a lot of physicists nowadays see "ontology" as "mere philosophy", while for many physicists and especially founding fathers of quantum mechanics it was just part of the physics. Maybe it's part of the increased level of abstraction of modern physics that physicists nowadays make this distinction between "philosophy" and "physics", but in my opinion such a cut is as artificial as the one by Heisenberg in quantum mechanics :PLittleSchwinger said:Wow, you've a very different experience to me. Pauli wrote essays about Jungian psychology and so on and Born wrote long essays on the meaning of science and society in general.
Bohr however always seemed flat and sober to me. Aside from the Como essay which was a bit confused, most of his writing is short and not particularly philosophical I would have said. Maybe it's different ideas of what's "philosophy".