Keith DeRose (born April 24, 1962) is anAmerican philosopher teaching atYale University inNew Haven, Connecticut,[1] where he is currently Allison Foundation Professor of Philosophy. He taught previously atNew York University andRice University. His primary interests includeepistemology,philosophy of language,philosophy of religion, and history of modern philosophy. He is best known for his work oncontextualism in epistemology, especially as a response to the traditional problem ofskepticism.[2]
DeRose graduated fromCalvin College in 1984 with aB.A. in Philosophy. He then studied atUCLA, earning anM.A. in 1986 and aPhD in 1990; his dissertation was entitledKnowledge, Epistemic Possibility, and Skepticism, underRogers Albritton. 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.
DeRose is a proponent of contextualism inepistemology, the view that "what is expressed by a knowledge attribution — a claim to the effect that S “knows” that p — depends partly on something in the context of the attributor, and hence the view is often called ‘attributor contextualism’. Because such an utterance is context-dependent, so too is whether the attribution is true. The typical [contextualist] view identifies the pivotal contextual features as the attributor’s practical stake in the truth of p, or the prominence in the attributor’s situation of skeptical doubts about knowledge."[3] DeRose is best-known for his application of contextualism to skepticism.[4]
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