Separate magisteria

Compartmentalization, or division of types of activity on separate magisteria is a tendency to restrict application of a generally-applicable skill, such as scientific method, only to select few contexts. More generally, the concept refers to not following a piece of knowledge to its logical conclusion, or not taking it seriously.

Blog posts

• Outside the Laboratory
• Reason as memetic immune disorder by Phil Goetz
• That Magical Click - Fast following of short inference chains might be a capability of people who fail to compartmentalize
• Compartmentalization in epistemic and instrumental rationality by Anna Salamon

See also

• Semantic stopsign, Anti-epistemology
• Cached thought
• Shut up and multiply, Bite the bullet, Absurdity heuristic
• Dangerous knowledge
• General knowledge, Understanding