WEB PAGE
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/philosophy/faculty/ashernm
BIOGRAPHY
Asher's principal research contributions have been in the fields of semantics, logic and the philosophy of language. He has published more than 70 articles in his areas of specialization. With colleagues, he has been working for the last ten years on a formal and computational theory of interpretation for discourse. Asher is also an associate editor of "Linguistics and Philosohpy" and the "Journal of Semantics." He edited the book "Modality, Morality, and Belief" (Cambridge Univ. Press) with W. Sinott-Armstrong and D. Raffman in 1995. Asher received his Ph.D. in Philosophy in 1982 from Yale University and joined the faculty at The University of Texas in 1982. He was a member of the Centre Nationale de Recherche Scientifique in Cognitive Science and Computer Science at Toulouse, France, from 1993 to 1994.
