Gila
Sher
Professor
PhD: Columbia University, 1989
Department of Philosophy, 0119, UCSD, La Jolla, CA 92093-0119
gsher AT ucsd.edu
Philosophical Interviews:
Research Interests:  Truth, Knowledge, and Logic
Selected Publications
Books
Articles
- The Post-Truth Crisis, The Value of Truth, and the Substantivist-Deflationist Debate. Forthcoming.
- Logical Realism: A Tale of Two Theories. Forthcoming.
- The Metaphysics of Truth: Anti-Deflationism and Substantial Pluralism. Forthcoming.
- Human Thought, Mathematics, and Physical Discovery. Forthcoming.
- Invariance as a Basis for Necessity and Laws. Philosopical Studies 178 (2021): 3945-74.
- Invariance and Logicality in Perspective. The Semantic Conception of Logic: Essays on Consequence, Invariance, and Meaning. Eds. G. Sagi & J. Woods. Cambridge 2021. Pp. 13-34.
- Quine vs. Quine: Abstract Knowledge and Ontology. Quine, Structure, and Ontology. Ed. F. Janssen-Lauret. Oxford 2020. Pp. 230-52.
- Where are You Going Philosophy, and what are Your Methods?. Academics 271 (2020): 185-96.
- Invariance and Necessity. Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics: Proceedings of the 41st International Wittgenstein Symposium. Eds. G.M. Mras, P. Weingartner, and B. Ritter. De
Gruyter. 2019. Pp. 55-70.
- Where Are You Going, Metaphysics, and How are You Getting There? - Grounding Theory as a Case Study. Quo Vadis, Metaphysics? Ed. M. Szatkowski. De Gruyter Studium 2019. Pp. 37-57.
- Pluralism and Normativity in Truth and Logic, American Philosophical Quarterly 57 (2020): 337-50.
- On the Explanatory Power of Truth in Logic. Philosophical Issues (Noûs) 28 (2018):348-73.
- Truth & Scientific Change. Journal of General Philosophy of Science 48 (2017): 371-394.
- Lessons on Truth From Kant. Analytic Philosophy 58 (2017): 171-201.
- Truth & Transcendence: Turning the Tables on the Liar Paradox. Reflections on the Liar. Ed. B. Armour-Garb. Oxford 2017. Pp. 281-306.
- Substantivism About Truth. Philosophy Compass. 11 (2016): 818-828.
- The Model-Theoretic Argument: From Skepticism to a New Understanding. The Brain in a Vat. Ed. S. Goldberg. Cambridge. 2016. Pp. 208-25.
- Wallace, Free Choice, and Fatalism. Freedom & the Self: Essays in the Philosophy of David Foster Wallace. Eds. S.M. Cahn & M. Eckert. Columbia. 2015. Pp. 31-56.
- Truth as Composite Correspondence. Unifying the Philosophy of Truth. Eds. H. Galinon, D. Achourioti, K. Fujimoto, J. Martinez. Springer. 2015. Pp. 191-210.
- The Foundational Problem of Logic. Bulletin of Symbolic Logic. 19 (2013): 145-98.
- Forms of Correspondence: The Intricate Route from Thought to Reality. Truth & Pluralism: Current Debates. Eds. N.J.L.L. Pedersen & C.D. Wright. Oxford. 2013. Pp. 157-179.
- Introduction & Commentary on Jennifer Hornsby's Truth: 'The Identity Theory' The Aristotelian Society. The Virtual Issue. April 2013.
- Truth & Knowledge in Logic & Mathematics. The Logica Yearbook 2011. Eds. M. Pelis & V. Puncochar. London: College Publications, King's College, 2012. Pp. 289-304.
- Logical Quantifiers. Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Language. Eds. D. Graff Fara & G. Russell. Routledge. 2012. Pp. 579-95.
- Is Logic in the Mind or in the World?. Synthese 181 (2011): 353-65.
- Epistemic Friction: Reflections on Knowledge, Truth, and Logic. Erkenntnis 72 (2010): 151-76.
- Book Review: Jody Azzouni. Tracking Reason: Proof, Consequence, and Truth. Oxford. 2006. Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 50 (2009): 97-117.
- Tarski's Thesis.
Alfred Tarski: Philosophical Background, Development, and Influence.
Ed. D.E. Patterson. Oxford. 2008. Pp. 300-39.
- 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. 2007. Pp. 280-306.
- 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. Pp. 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. Pp. 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. Pp. 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
- Introduction to Philosophy
- Sentential and
Informal Logic
- Predicate Logic
- Mathematical Logic
- Meta-Logic
- Modal Logic
- Fundamentals of Set
Theory
- Philosophy of Logic
- Godel's Incompleteness Theorems & Their Philosophical Significance
- The Nature of
Philosophy
- Epistemology
- Metaphysics
- Contemporary Works in
Epistemology & Metaphysics
- Truth
- Possible Worlds
Semantics
- Kant
- Quine
- Kripke
- Linguistic Representation & Indeterminacy
- Freshman Seminar:
Spheres of Freedom
Graduate
- Truth
- Truth as a Human Value
- Is There Truth in Ethics?
- Truth, Language, Models and Reality
- Truth in Kant
- Truth and Scientific Change
- The Enigma of the Intellect
- Indeterminacy, Invariance & the Nature of Information
- Quine and the Direction of Philosophy
- Rorty: Philosophy & the Mirror of Nature
- Mind & World: Sellars & McDowell
- Dummett: The Logical Basis of Metaphysics
- Putnam: Philosophical Papers
- Williamson: The Philosophy of Philosophy
- Computability & Logic
- Goedel's Incompleteness Theorems
- The Nature of Logic: Philosophical and Cognitive Perspectives (Interdisciplinary, with Rafael Nunez, Cog Sc)
- Consciousness, Computation & Incompleteness (Interdisciplinary, with Shlomi Sher, Psychology)
- Foundations of Analytic Philosophy: Frege, Russell, and the Early Wittgenstein
- Highlights of Analytic Philosophy: 1st Year Graduate Proseminar (with Craig Callender)
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Updated: December 2021