Mark Lance

Lance earned his Ph.D. at the University of Pittsburgh under the direction of Robert Brandom and Nuel Belnap.[1] His main areas of expertise are philosophy of language, epistemology, philosophical logic, and metaphysics. He also writes and speaks extensively on anarchist theory. Lance is a critic of anarcho-primitivism and its rejection of language.[2]

Lance is co-director of the Georgetown University Program on Justice and Peace.[1] He has been 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.

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,[3] and in the print editions of 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.

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