Volume 11, Issue 2, June 2022
Eliran Haziza

Pages 93-100
https://doi.org/10.5840/tht20233815
Reconciling the Epistemic and the Zetetic
In recent work, Jane Friedman has argued that commonly accepted epistemic norms conflict with a basic instrumental principle of inquiry, according to which one ought to take the necessary means to resolving one¡¯s inquiry. According to Friedman, we ought to reject the epistemic norms in question and accept instead that the only genuine epistemic norms are zetetic norms¡ªnorms that govern inquiry. I argue that there is a more attractive way out of the conflict, one which reconciles the epistemic and the zetetic.