Mark Norris Lance (born 1959) is a professor in the Philosophy Department and Justice and Peace Studies Program at

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Life

Lance earned his Ph.D. at the

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under the direction of

Robert Brandom Robert Boyce Brandom (born March 13, 1950) is an American philosopher who teaches at the University of Pittsburgh. He works primarily in philosophy of language, philosophy of mind and philosophical logic, and his academic output manifests both sys ...

and

Nuel Belnap Nuel Dinsmore Belnap Jr. (; born 1930) is an American logician and philosopher who has made contributions to the philosophy of logic, temporal logic, and structural proof theory. He taught at the University of Pittsburgh from 1963 until his ret ...

. His main areas of expertise are the philosophy of language, epistemology, philosophical logic, and metaphysics. He also writes and speaks extensively on anarchist theory. Lance is also a critic of

anarcho-primitivism Anarcho-primitivism is an anarchist critique of civilization (anti-civ) that advocates a return to non-civilized ways of life through deindustrialization, abolition of the division of labor or specialization, and abandonment of large-scale organ ...

and its rejection of language. He is co-director of the Georgetown University Program on Justice and Peace. He has been the General Director of the

Institute for Anarchist Studies The Institute for Anarchist Studies (IAS) is a non-profit organization founded by Chuck W. Morse in 1996, following the anarcho-communist Anarcho-communism, also known as anarchist communism, (or, colloquially, ''ancom'' or ''ancomm'') is a p ...

and a contributor to its journal, ''

Perspectives on Anarchist Theory The Institute for Anarchist Studies (IAS) is a non-profit organization founded by Chuck W. Morse in 1996, following the Anarcho-communism, anarcho-communist school of thought, to assist anarchist writers and further develop theoretical aspects of ...

''. 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 Álvaro Uribe Vélez (born 4 July 1952) is a Colombian politician who served as the 31st President of Colombia from 7 August 2002 to 7 August 2010. Uribe started his political career in his home department of Antioquia. He held offices in t ...

to teach at

in September 2010, and was interviewed by Colombia's

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in a film clip, and in the print editions of

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Works

* * Kukla, Rebecca; Lance, Mark Norris'' 'Yo!' and 'Lo!' : the pragmatic topography of the space of reasons'' Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2009. , * *

References

External links

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List of publicationsInstitute for Anarchist StudiesFetishizing Process by Mark Lance"Against Apocalyptic Anarchism" summary
University of Pittsburgh alumni Philosophers of language Living people American anarchists Georgetown University faculty American philosophers 1959 births {{Anarchist-stub