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Keith DeRose

Keith DeRose

Allison Foundation Professor of Philosophy
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203.432.1674
keith.derose@yale.edu
Keith DeRose Web site

Areas of Interests

Epistomology, Philosophy of Language, History of Modern Philosophy.

Education

PhD 1990, UCLA

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 CV.

Works in Progress

  • "The Conditionals of Deliberation"
  • Knowledge, Skepticism, and Context