I find it troubling that many scientist are so hell bent on refuting intuition when it has played such a crucial role in human progress and I think Maudlin is right everyone in the scientific community is doing philosophy, whether they want to call it that or not. Hawkins himself is engaging in philosophizing about time travel. To me the criticisms about philosophy seemed to me a mask criticism about one form of philosophy and that is Theology. I can't help but feel that it philosophy can be knocked down a peg then it also helps to lower theology. Philosophy is not about answering the questions, it is about finding good questions to peruse and at it's core it is about intuition. One branch peruses intuition through science and the other through emotion neither should be trying to discredit the other as the philosophical ambitions are separate and unrelated.
