Tim Maudlin: Hawking "Just Doesn't Know What He's Talking About"

In this Atlantic article on the philosophy of cosmology, Tim Maudlin states:

Hawking is a brilliant man, but he's not an expert in what's going on in philosophy, evidently. Over the past thirty years the philosophy of physics has become seamlessly integrated with the foundations of physics work done by actual physicists, so the situation is actually the exact opposite of what he describes. I think he just doesn't know what he's talking about. I mean there's no reason why he should. Why should he spend a lot of time reading the philosophy of physics? I'm sure it's very difficult for him to do. But I think he's just . . . uninformed.

This became evident to me in October of 2010 when I sat down to study Hawking and Mlodinow, The Grand Design.  I soon discovered it was rubbish.  Here are my notes on Chapter One.  After studying Chapter Two I decide the trash-to-treasure ratio was so unfavorable as not to justify further discussion.  I mean, it's work writing these posts!

This Atlantic piece is well worth attention.  It is free of sort of nonsense I have criticized in Krauss and Coyne and Hawking and others.