Mark N. Lance

Mark N. Lance, Professor, Assoc Dir, Grad Studies; Professor of philosophy Professor of Justice and Peace Director, Georgetown University Program on Justice and Peace.

"Professor Lance works mostly in the areas of philosophy of language, epistemology, philosophical logic, and metaphysics, but writes as well on pragmatism, feminism, meta-ethics, the foundations of mathematics, anarchist theory and applied issues of social justice activism. He has published over 30 articles and two books on such topics as relevance logic, normativity, meaning, Bayesianism, and sexual identity. He is currently writing books on anarchism and rational community, understanding, defeasible laws (with Margaret Little), and the pragmatics of social authority (with Rebecca Kukla), as well as articles on such topics as the foundations of set theory, and consensus decision making. His most recent book is 'Yo!' and 'Lo!': the pragmatic topography of the space of reasons, co-authored with Rebecca Kukla, which was recently published by Harvard University Press.

"Outside of philosophy, Prof. Lance is an activist, organizer, and frequent speaker on issues of social justice." CV


 * Editorial board, Peace and Change, 1998 – present.
 * Board of directors, Institute for Anarchist Studies, 2005 - present.
 * Editorial board, Perspectives in Anarchist Theory, 2005 - present.
 * Editorial board Affinities, 2005 – present.
 * Co-editor, Peace and Change Fall 2001 – Jan 2006.
 * Member, national steering committee, US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, 2004 – present, committee co-chair, 2005 – present.
 * Board of Directors, Consortium on Peace Research, Education, and Development 1996 - 2001, co-chair of board, 1999 – 2001.
 * Member Georgetown University Task force on the Catholic and Jesuit Identity of the Unversity, 1999.
 * Faculty member in residence, LXR Dorm, 1999 – 2001.
 * External reviewer for Trinity University (Washington, DC) department of philosophy (sole reviewer, produced report on department structure, teaching, and research.)
 * Adjunct faculty at the Institute for Social Ecology 2003-2005

Other affiliations

 * Speaker, Palestine Freedom Project

Recent Activist Related Articles

 * “Civil Society and Civil Disobedience: Strategy and Tactics of solidarity,” in a volume of papers from the 2005 United Nations meeting on the implementation of the International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion on the Wall in Occupied Palestine.
 * “Toward a unified strategy of Solidarity with Palestine: The case for the Caterpillar campaign,” forthcoming in a volume of papers from the 2005 Trans-Arab Research Institute conference.
 * “Fetishizing Process,” Social Anarchism #38, 2005. Reprinted and widely debated on numerous websites.
 * “Challenging Left Dogma on the Draft,” Left Turn, 2004, widely distributed and debated on the web.
 * “Walls, ‘states,’ and resistance,” in Washington Report On Middle East Affairs, October 2003.

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