Mark Lance

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Mark Lance is a professor in the Philosophy Department and Justice and Peace Studies Program at Georgetown University. He earned his Ph.D at the University of Pittsburgh under the direction of Robert Brandom and his main area of expertise is the philosophy of language, epistemology, philosophical logic, and metaphysics. However, he also writes and speaks extensively on anarchist theory. Some of his published works include The Grammar of Meaning (ISBN 0-521-58300-4) as well as many articles on topics ranging from consensus democracy to neo-Sellarisanism.

In addition to his academic life, he is the General Director of the Institute for Anarchist Studies and a contributor to their journal, Perspectives on Anarchist Theory. He is also active in the group Stop US Tax-funded Aid to Israel Now (SUSTAIN). In January 2006, Lance presented a talk, "Against Apocalyptic Anarchism" at the annual National Conference on Organized Resistance meeting in Washington, D.C.

Mark Lance is also a critic of Anarcho-primitivism and its rejection of language. ^[1]

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• List of publications
• Institute for Anarchist Studies
• Fetishizing Process by Mark Lance
• "Against Apocalyptic Anarchism" summary