Non‐uniformism about the Epistemology of Modality: Strong and Weak.

Recently, the notion of "non-uniformism" has attracted attention in the epistemology of modality. In particular, weak non-uniformism (or weak uniformism) must be defended with appeal to the alleged quality of currently available modal epistemologies, while strong non-uniformism (or strong uniformism) is independent of any particular modal epistemology. The integration challenge is the challenge to provide an epistemology of modality which integrates well with the metaphysics of modality, and vice versa - which is often taken to be an important issue in modal epistemology. 23 In particular: current ambitious modal epistemologies tend to require that knowledge of necessity is prior to knowledge of possibility, and such necessity-based modal epistemologies cannot do justice to the social epistemology data. [Extracted from the article]