ABSTRACT
Many have discussed whether the demands of friendship are incompatible with the requirements of epistemology. This thesis is typically designated as “epistemic partiality in friendship” (EPF). The central claim of this chapter is that the arguments that have been offered for EPF have a significantly more radical upshot than most have recognized: if (one or more of) the arguments for EPF are successful, then there is a well-motivated case for epistemic partiality in many other situations where our value commitments are in play. This result poses a challenge to EPF’s proponents: show how to argue for EPF without implying various other demands for epistemic partiality, or else learn to live with the idea that our values regularly commit us to being epistemically partial.
