Nicholas M Asher
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Professor
PhD, Yale
Interests
Logic, semantics, philosophy of languageBiography
A specialist in the philosophy of language, formal semantics, and philosophical logic, his interests also range over issues in metaphysics and the philosophy of mind. He is the author ofReference to Abstract Objects in Discourse: A Philosophical Semantics for Natural Language Metaphysics and Epistemology (1993), as well as dozens of articles. Professor Asher is especially well-known for his Segmented Discourse Representation Theory (SDRT). He has received several grants from the National Science Foundation. He has taught at the Stuttgart Institute for Computational Linguistics and has been a member of the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique of France. He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Semanticsand is Associate Editor of Linguistics and Philosophy.
