Keith DeRose (born April 24, 1962) is an

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teaching at

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, where he is currently Allison Foundation Professor of Philosophy. He taught previously at

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. His primary interests include

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, and history of modern philosophy. He is best known for his work on contextualism in epistemology, especially as a response to the traditional problem of skepticism.Michael Williams, "Knowledge, Reflection and Sceptical Hypotheses", Erkenntnis 61 (2004)

Education

DeRose graduated from Calvin College in 1984 with a B.A. in Philosophy. He then studied at UCLA, earning an M.A. in 1986 and a

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in 1990; his dissertation was entitled ''Knowledge, Epistemic Possibility, and Skepticism'', under

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. While at UCLA, he won the Robert M. Yost Prize for Excellence in Teaching (1988), was awarded the Griffin Fellowship in 1990, and won the Carnap Essay Prize in 1989 and again in 1990.

Selected publications

*''The Case for Contextualism. Knowledge, Skepticism, and Context'', Oxford University Press, 2009. *"The Ordinary Language Basis for Contextualism and the New Invariantism," ''The Philosophical Quarterly'', 2005. *"Direct Warrant Realism," in A. Dole and A. Chignell, ed., ''God and the Ethics of Belief: New Essays in Philosophy of Religion'' (Cambridge University Press, 2005). *"Single Scoreboard Semantics," ''Philosophical Studies'', 2004. *"Assertion, Knowledge, and Context," ''Philosophical Review'', 2002; ''Philosopher's Annual'', vol. 26. *"Solving the Skeptical Problem," ''Philosophical Review'', 1995; ''Philosopher's Annual'', vol. 18. *"Contextualism and Knowledge Attributions," ''Philosophy and Phenomenological Research'', 1992 *"Epistemic Possibilities," ''Philosophical Review'', 1991. *"Reid's Anti-Sensationalism and His Realism," ''Philosophical Review'', 1989.

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