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This is interesting, because the "dead simply don't die" problem definitely exists in the popular perception. If you ask a man on the street to name a philosopher, you're much more likely to get Plato or Socrates than Kant, or Nietzsche, or Dennett. This is in stark contrast to physics, where (I imagine) "name a physicist" would get you Einstein, Hawking, or maybe Newton.
But one might argue that there wasn't anything properly called 'physics' before Newton - Bringing up Newton for Physics is isomorphic to bringing up Socrates for philosophy. Someone calling Aristotle a 'physicist' would be off-base, despite his having written a book called 'physics'.