General Bias and Its Time in Thought
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Jeannot, Tom
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2024
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25
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Lonergan , General Bias , 2020 PhilPapers Survey , Fides et Ratio , Atheism , Naturalism , Personalism , Interiority , The Supernatural
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General bias varies with various contexts. This paper investigates some manifestations of general bias among specialists in English-speaking professional philosophy. In turn, St. Pope John Paul II claims that “Philosophy . . . is the mirror which reflects the culture of a people.” In the 2020 PhilPapers Survey, substantial majorities identified as metaphilosophical naturalists (50.2% v. 31.1%) and as physicalists (51.9% v. 32.1%). A supermajority agreed that there is a “hard problem of consciousness” (62.4%) and a supermajority identified as atheists (66.9%). “Dogmatic scientific realism, various forms of materialism, compatibilism, and atheism [are] the unquestioned default positions” (Hanna 2013). General bias is manifest in at least three dimensions: a nearly complete separation of philosophy from theology; a nearly total withdrawal of credit from the notion of the supernatural; and a nearly permanent agnosticism concerning the metaphysical notion of personhood. If these are counterpositions, the key to their reversal is the notion of interiority.
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Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center, Creighton University
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1941-8450