In the paper I pose a question whether naturalized epistemology can be conducted as a normative enterprise. It is noticeable that naturalists cannot deliver substantial, traditionally understood account of normativity. This is the reason why naturalism is often conceived as a merely descriptive enterprise. Nevertheless, naturalists do not reject normativity yet they understand it in a very specific sense. In the paper I show the main problem with naturalising epistemic norms which could be expressed in the question: What is the difference between norms and description of facts? My thesis is that naturalistic epistemic norms are actually descriptions of empirical phenomena which are expressed in a normative form for the sake of everyday life and scientific practice.
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