Allison Foundation Professor of Philosophy
410 CT Hall
(203) 432-1674
keith[dot]derose[at]yale[dot]edu
http://pantheon.yale.edu/~kd47

Education
PhD 1990, UCLA

Areas of Interest

Epistomology, Philosophy of Language, History of Modern Philosophy.

Current or Recent Courses Taught

* Modern Philosophy, Descartes to Kant
* Free Will, God, and Evil
* Belief in the Existence of God
* Berkeley, Hume, and Reid
* Epistemology Seminar: Contextualism and Invariantism
* Epistemology Seminar: Safety and Sensitivity in Epistemology
* Philosophy of Religion Seminar: Problem of Evil

Selected Publications

"Gradable Adjectives: A Defense of Pluralism," forthcoming, The Australasian Journal of Philosophy.

"'Bamboozled by Our Own Words': Semantic Blindness and Some Arguments Against Contextualism," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2006.

"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.

"Epistemic Possibilities," Philosophical Review, 1991.

"Reid's Anti-Sensationalism and His Realism," Philosophical Review, 1989.

For a complete list of DeRose's philosophical publications, please see his C.V.

Works in Progress

"The Conditionals of Deliberation"

Knowledge, Skepticism, and Context