Mark Norris Lance (born 1959) is a professor in the Philosophy Department and Justice and Peace Studies Program at Georgetown University.
Mark Lance | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1959 |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Pittsburgh |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Philosophy |
| Sub-discipline | Peace Studies |
| Institutions | Georgetown University |
Life
editLance 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]
Works
edit- 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.
References
edit- ^ a b "Georgetown University Faculty Directory". gufaculty360.georgetown.edu. Retrieved 2022-05-01.
- ^ Lance, Mark from lecture "Anarchist Practice, Rational Democracy and Community" NCOR (2004) "DC Indymedia: Newswire/90971". Archived from the original on 2005-04-21. Retrieved 2005-03-25.
- ^ "Protestas en Universidad de Georgetown por cátedra que dictará Uribe."[1]
- ^ "Ex-Colombian President Uribe's arrival to SFS sparks protests". The Georgetown Voice. 2010-09-09. Retrieved 2022-05-01.
External links
edit- Appearances on C-SPAN
- List of publications
- Institute for Anarchist Studies
- Fetishizing Process by Mark Lance
- "Against Apocalyptic Anarchism" summary
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