Mark Lance

Lance earned his Ph.D. at the University of Pittsburgh under the direction of Robert Brandom. His main areas of expertise are the philosophy of language, epistemology, philosophical logic, and metaphysics. He also writes and speaks extensively on anarchist theory. His published works include The Grammar of Meaning (ISBN 0-521-58300-4) "'yo' and 'lo': the pragmatic topography of the space of reasons" (with Rebecca Kukla) (ISBN 0674031474), and many articles on topics ranging from consensus democracy to neo-Sellarsianism to relevance logic. He is a founder and former director of the Georgetown University Program on Justice and Peace, and a former board member of the Peace and Justice Studies Association.

In addition to his academic life, he was previously the General Director of the Institute for Anarchist Studies and a contributor to its journal, Perspectives on Anarchist Theory. He has been active in a wide range of activist organizations, including work in solidarity with Latin America, Palestine, and South Africa, as well as anti-war, LGBTQ, and global justice work. He is currently a member of the steering committee of The Truth Telling Project In January 2006, Lance presented a talk, "Against Apocalyptic Anarchism," at the annual National Conference on Organized Resistance meeting in Washington, D.C.

Lance is also a critic of anarcho-primitivism and its rejection of language.[1]

Lance protested the arrival of President Álvaro Uribe to teach at Georgetown University in September 2010, and was interviewed by Colombia's El Espectador in a film clip,[2] and in the print editions of El Heraldo,[3] and The Georgetown Voice.[4]

• Lance, M.N.; Hawthorne, J.P. (1997). The Grammar of Meaning: Normativity and Semantic Discourse. Cambridge Studies in Philosophy. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-58300-8.
• Kukla, Rebecca; Lance, Mark Norris 'Yo!' and 'Lo!' : the pragmatic topography of the space of reasons Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2009. ISBN 9780674031470, OCLC 214282222
• M. Potrc; V. Strahovnik; M. Lance, eds. (2010). Challenging Moral Particularism. Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-135-89251-7.
• Lance, Mark; Kukla, Rebecca (2009-01-28). "Perception, language, and the first person". PhilPapers.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

• Appearances on C-SPAN
• List of publications
• Institute for Anarchist Studies
• Fetishizing Process by Mark Lance
• "Against Apocalyptic Anarchism" summary