I am not as awed by philosophers as you are, but I think this is rather unfair on philosophy by extrapolating from a bad example, that isn't even what is generally meant by the philosophy of science. From your description, your example looks like a group of philosophers (or at least philosophically-minded people) trying to take on a scientific topic without first learning the science (of course, some physicists have been accused of doing the same with regard to philosophy.)

Henri Bergson, who had put a lifetime's study into a philosophical rumination on time, vigorously rejected special relativity, to the point that it is said that Einstein's Nobel award citation did not mention special relativity on account of Bergson's criticism. Nevertheless, Einstein was in no doubt about what was his most important work, and gave an acceptance speech that was all about relativity.

If Bergson had been more aware of what had been going in in physics, over the previous two decades, to come to terms with the (meta?)physical implications of Maxwell's equations, he might not have been blindsided by special relativity.

As the above is rather critical of Bergson, I will end by noting that near the end of his life, he stood up to the Vichy regime's persecution of Jews, even though he was not Jewish himself and could have remained aloof.