b. 1962
Keith DeRose is a contemporary analytic epistemologist and Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. He is best known for developing and defending epistemic contextualism, the view that the truth conditions of knowledge-attributing sentences vary with the context of the speaker. His work on skepticism argues that contextualism dissolves apparent skeptical paradoxes without conceding that we lack ordinary knowledge.
Developed influential formulation of epistemic contextualism about knowledge attributions
Authored 'Solving the Skeptical Problem' (1995), a landmark paper in responses to Cartesian skepticism
Wrote 'The Case for Contextualism: Knowledge, Skepticism, and Context' (2009), the definitive book-length defense of contextualism
Contributed to debates on the Moorean response to skepticism and the epistemic significance of lottery propositions
Helped establish contextualism as a major position in the literature alongside invariantism and subject-sensitive invariantism