plnelson....

re: " But there are serious thinkers who take the position that such a bias is just that: a bias, a value judgement."

We have had exactly that claim made here in some of these discussions over the years. I have been *told* that my 'favoring' of logic & science was "just as subjective" as their favoring of some metaphysical or religious or 'extra-sensory' explanation of various phenomena.

It has gotten so you can almost predict who will show up with a certain viewpoint as soon as certain issues arise. ☺
(And we do have a real mixture of viewpoints....some of whom accept 'X' but deny 'Y'...and most of the other capital letters.)