title: Mark Lance
text: # Mark Lance
  
  Mark Norris Lance (born 1959) is a professor in the Philosophy Department and Justice and Peace Studies Program at Georgetown University.
  
  ## Life
  
  Lance earned his Ph.D. at the University of Pittsburgh under the direction of Robert Brandom and Nuel Belnap. 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.
  
  Lance is co-director of the Georgetown University Program on Justice and Peace. 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, and in the print editions of The Georgetown Voice.
  
  ## Works
  
  * 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.
  