Gila Sher

Professor

 PhD: Columbia University, 1989

Department of Philosophy, 0119
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093-0119

Tel: (858)534-8504

gsher AT ucsd.edu

 

 

I do research in epistemology, metaphysics, and the philosophy of logic. Current topics include:

 

Knowledge -- Epistemic Friction & Epistemic Freedom, Foundations without Foundationalism

(Foundational Holism), A Neo-Quinean Model of Knowledge.

 

Truth -- A Substantivist Approach to Truth, the Unity and Diversity of Truth, 

Moderate Pluralism of Correspondence Principles.

 

Logic -- The Foundational Problem of Logic, Logic and Reality, Stucturalism in Logic and Mathematics,

Formality as a Semantic Notion.

 

All these topics are combined in my work in progress: Epistemic Friction -- An Essay on Knowledge, Truth, and Logic.

 

 

 

Selected Publications

Books

• The Bounds of Logic: A Generalized Viewpoint. (MIT, 1991)
• Between Logic and Intuition: Essays in Honor of Charles Parsons. Co-editor, with R. Tieszen. (Cambridge, 2000)

Articles

• Tarski's Thesis. Alfred Tarski: Philosophical Background, Development, and Influence. Ed. D.E. Patterson. Oxford. Forthcoming.
• Truth as a Normative Modality of Cognitive Acts. With C.D. Wright. Truth & Speech Acts: Studies in the Philosophy of Language. Eds. G. Siegwart and D. Greimann. (Routledge, Forthcoming)
• Functional Pluralism. Philosophical Books 46 (2005): 311-330.
• In Search of a Substantive Theory of Truth. The Journal of Philosophy 101 (2004): 5-36.
• A Characterization of Logical Constants Is Possible. Theoria 18 (2003): 189-97.
• Logical Consequence: An Epistemic Outlook. The Monist 85 (2002): 555-79
• Truth, the Liar, and Tarski's Semantics. A Companion to Philosophical Logic. Ed. D. Jacqette. (Blackwell, 2002): 145-63.
• The Formal-Structural View of Logical Consequence. The Philosophical Review 110 (2001): 241-61.
• Truth, Logical Structure, and Compositionality. Synthese 126 (2001): 195-219.
• The Logical Roots of Indeterminacy. Between Logic and Intuition. Eds. G. Sher & R. Tieszen. (Cambridge, 2000): 100-23.
• Is There a Place for Philosophy in Quine's Theory? The Journal of Philosophy 96 (1999): 491-524.
• Is Logic a Theory of the Obvious?. European Review of Philosophy 4 (1999): 207-38.
• What Is Tarski's Theory of Truth? Topoi 18 (1999): 149-166.
• On the Possibility of a Substantive Theory of Truth. Synthese 117 (1998/99): 133-72.
• Partially-Ordered (Branching) Generalized Quantifiers: A General Definition. The Journal of Philosophical Logic 26 (1997): 1-43.
• Did Tarski Commit 'Tarski's Fallacy'? The Journal of Symbolic Logic 61 (1996): 653-86.
• Semantics and Logic. The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory, ed. S. Lappin (Blackwell, 1996): 509-35.
• Ways of Branching Quantifiers. Linguistics and Philosophy 13 (1990): 393-422.
• A Conception of Tarskian Logic. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 70 (1989): 341-68.

 

Teaching

Undergraduate

• Sentential and Informal Logic
• Predicate Logic
• Mathematical Logic
• Meta-Logic
• Modal Logic
• Fundamentals of Set Theory
• Philosophy of Logic
• The Nature of Philosophy
• Epistemology
• Metaphysics
• Contemporary Works in Epistemology & Metaphysics
• Truth
• Possible Worlds Semantics
• Kant
• Quine
• Kripke
• Freshman Seminar: Spheres of Freedom

Graduate

• Foundations of Analytic Philosophy: Frege, Russell, and the Early Wittgenstein
• Highlights of Analytic Philosophy: 1st Year Graduate Proseminar (with Craig Callender)
• The Nature of Logic: Philosophical and Cognitive Perspectives (with Rafael Nunez, Cog Sc)
• Truth (multiple)
• Truth, Language, Models and Reality
• Quine (multiple)
• Rorty: Philosophy & the Mirror of Nature
• Mind & World: Sellars & McDowell
• Dummett: The Logical Basis of Metaphysics
• Putnam: Philosophical Papers
• Computability & Logic
• Goedel's Incompleteness Theorems

 

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 Updated: August 2006