Croatian Journal of Philosophy

Volume 4, Issue 3, 2004

The Philosophy of Robert Nozick

Jonathan Kvanvig
Pages 351-364

Nozickian Epistemology and the Question of Closure

Nozick’s contribution to the epistemology of the last half of the twentieth century includes addressing the question of whether knowledge is closed under known implication. I argue that the question of closure provides a serious obstacle to Nozickian approaches to epistemology.