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published on March 10, 2023
Eliran Haziza

https://doi.org/10.5840/tht20233815
Reconciling the Epistemic and the Zetetic
In recent work, Jane Friedman has argued that commonly accepted epis- temic 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 in- quiry. I argue that there is a more attractive way out of the conflict, one which reconciles the epistemic and the zetetic.