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Jane Friedman

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Faculty Fellow

Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts & Science
Project: The Norms of Inquiry

I am an assistant professor in the philosophy department at NYU. I work in contemporary analytic philosophy focusing largely on epistemology and its close relatives. While epistemology is officially the study of knowledge, much of my work has been focused on subjects who lack knowledge, as well as on how we might go about getting the knowledge we are after. I’ve written about agnosticism, uncertainty, belief, curiosity, epistemic normativity and more. My main project right now is on inquiry — what does it take to be inquiring and what are the rules or norms of the practice?