Education
DeRose graduated from Calvin College in 1984 with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy. He then studied at University of California, Los Angeles, earning an Master of Arts in 1986 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1990. His dissertation was entitled Knowledge, Epistemic Possibility, and Skepticism, under Rogers Albritton.
While at University of California, Los Angeles, 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.
