Modal Epistemology Without Detours

Many common approaches to modality pose problems for accounts of modal knowledge that are no less severe than those thought to plague David Lewis’s account in terms of a plurality of concrete worlds. Typically, these theories are framed in terms of the wrong kinds of thing and their defenders misdiagnose the failings of Lewis’s plurality. These considerations provide the foundations for modalist accounts of modal knowledge, where modality is not primarily a matter of recherché objects.