Compartmentalized knowledge

• Published in: Philosophical studies Vol. 176; no. 10; pp. 2785 - 2805
• Main Author: Spectre, Levi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer 01.10.2019; Springer Netherlands; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Conjunctions; Education; Epistemology; Ethics; Irony; Knowledge; Logic; Metaphysics; Modality (Semantic); Philosophy; Philosophy of Language; Philosophy of Mind; Propositions; Reasoning; Compartmentalization; Knowledge closure; Modal epistemic logic; Normal modal logic; Subject sensitive invariantism; Lottery paradox; Skepticism; Preface paradox; Knowledge; David Lewis; Contextualism
• ISSN: 0031-8116; 1573-0883
• DOI: 10.1007/s11098-018-1151-2

This paper explores some consequences of Lewis's (Australas J Philos 74(4):549-567, 1996) understanding of how knowledge is compartmentalized. It argues, first, that he underestimates how badly it impacts his view. When knowledge is compartmentalized, it lacks at least one of two essential feat...