What type of details about gila sher  can be gathered from the following bio?  Bio: gila sher is a professor of philosophy at the university of california , san diego . she has worked extensively in the theory of truth and philosophy of logic . sher is a leading advocate of foundational holism , a holistic theory of epistemology . sher earned a ph.d. in philosophy from columbia university , where she studied the works of willard quine and alfred tarski . her dissertation was directed by charles parsons . her early work focused on tarski 's definition of truth . her reformulation of this definition has been influential in modern truth theory . her dissertation was expanded into the book `` the bounds of logic '' -lrb- 1991 -rrb- , in which sher also formalized definitions for unique second-order quantifiers such as ` most ' . sher has pursued research into logical positivism and logical foundationalism . she has argued that strict-ordering foundationalism , in the vein of rudolf carnap , is untenable , supporting quine 's argument from `` two dogmas of empiricism '' . she has , however , resisted the mainstream move toward all-or-nothing and semantic holism . the former view she considers unexplanatory , and the latter she considers untenable -lrb- see : jerry fodor -rrb- . sher has also written more generally on the metaphysics of truth . she put forward an influential criticism of john etchemendy in the article `` did tarski commit tarski 's fallacy ? '' this article was influential in defending tarskian truth theory from the radical attack posed by etchemendy . she is also a leading quine scholar , writing about the place of philosophy in his theory of naturalized epistemology . since 2012 , she is one of four editors-in-chief of the journal synthese .
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