Gila Sher

Gila Sher is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. Her research focuses on foundational questions in logic, knowledge, truth, and their intersections with mathematics, ethics, and the history of philosophy. She engages deeply with figures like Kant, Tarski, and Quine, advocating for a substantivist approach to truth and epistemic holism.

Her work explores topics such as logical exceptionalism, invariance principles, and the post-truth crisis. She contributed to the Australasian Philosophical Review Special Volume with a paper on truth’s value amid contemporary challenges, discussed at the 2024 AAP Conference. Her book Epistemic Friction: An Essay on Knowledge, Truth and Logic (2016) redefines philosophical methodology by integrating classical questions with analytic rigor.

She participates in interdisciplinary initiatives like the Institute for Practical Ethics, addressing ethical dilemmas in science and technology. Sher’s academic journey includes a BA from the Hebrew University (philosophy and sociology) and a PhD from Columbia University under Charles Parsons.