Office: WAG 316
Office Hours: On Leave Fall '07
Phone: 471-4857
nasher@mail.utexas.edu
Webpage

Education: BA, MA, MPhil, PhD Yale, BPhil Oxford

Research interests:
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 of Reference 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.

Courses taught:
Logic, semantics, philosophy of language

Field(s) of Study: Philosophy of Language, Philosophical Logic, Metaphysics