Curriculum Vitae of Mark Norris Lance
Department of Philosophy
Georgetown University
Washington, D.C. 20057-1133
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
Current: Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Justice and Peace, Georgetown University. (Assistant Prof. 1991-94, Associate Prof. 1994-2000)
Director, Program on Justice and Peace. (1994 – 2003, 2007-10, Spring 2013, Fall 2019-)
Allen and Anita Sutton Distinguished Faculty Fellow in philosophy, Syracuse University (1988-91).
EDUCATION
University of Pittsburgh (1983-1988): Ph. D., August 1988.
Ohio State University (1977-1983): B.A. With Distinction in Philosophy and With Honors in the Liberal Arts. Major: Philosophy, Minor: Mathematics, extensive coursework in music performance.
PUBLICATIONS AND WORK IN PROGRESS
PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE, METAPHYSICS and EPISTEMOLOGY.
1. “How to Do Philosophical Things With Words,” (with Andrew Blitzer), under review. (An earlier version with the title “Phenomenology without Ontology: Heidegger on How to Talk About Being” was presented as an invited symposium paper at the 2013 Eastern Division meetings of the American Philosophical Association.
2. “Rejecting the Pure, but keeping the pragmatics: comments on Peter Olen’s Wilfrid Sellars and the foundations of normativity,” Journal for the History of Analytic Philosophy, vol 7 no 3, 2019.
3. “Receptivity and entangled epistemic capacities: Comments on Carl Sachs’ Intentionality and the Myths of the Given,” in International Journal Of Philosophical Studies, 2016.
4. “Language Embodied and Embedded: Walking the Talk,” in Giving a Damn: Essays in Honor of John Haugeland, ed Zed Adams, MIT Press, 2018, pp 161-185.
5. “’Two Dogmas of Rationalism’: A second encounter,” in Giving a Damn: Essays in Honor of John Haugeland, ed Zed Adams, MIT Press, 2018, pp 329-339.
6. “Intersubjectivity and Receptive Experience” (with Rebecca Kukla), Southern Journal of Philosophy vol 52, issue 1, pp 22-42, March 2014.
7. “Speaking and Thinking,” (with Rebecca Kukla), in Wilfrid Sellars And His Legacy, ed James O’Shea, Oxford University Press, 2016.
8. ‘Yo!’ and ‘Lo!’: The PragmaticTopography of the Space of Reasons (with Rebecca
Kukla), Harvard University Press, 2009.
9. “Perception, Language, and the First Person,” (with Rebecca Kukla) in Reading Brandom: Making It Explicit, eds. Bernard Weiss and Jeremy Wanderer, Routledge University Press 2009.
10. “Placing in a Space of Norms: neo-Sellarsian philosophy in the 21st century,” in The Oxford Handbook of American Philosophy, ed Cheryl Misak, Oxford University Press 2008, pp .
11. “Stereoscopic Vision: reasons, causes, and two spaces of material inference”(with Heath White), The Philosophers’ Imprint, vol 7, no 4, pp 1-21, 2007.
12. "Rationality and Emotion," (with Alessandra Tanesini), in New Essays in the Philosophy of Language and Mind, Maite Ezcurdia, R. Stainton and C. Viger ed’s, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, supplementary volume 30, University of Calgary Press, 2004, pp 275-295.
13. “Defeasibility and the Normative Grasp of Context” (with Margaret Little) Erkenntnis, Volume 61, Numbers 2-3, November 2004, Springer Science, pp 435-455.
14. "Precis of The Grammar of Meaning: Normativity and Semantic Content," (with John O'Leary-Hawthorne), Philosophy and Phenomenological Research vol. LXV,no. 1, July 2002, pp 177 – 185. (The review and responses below form part of a PPR book symposium).
15. "Responses to Byrne, Horgan, Loewer, and Schiffer" (with John O'Leary Hawthorne,) Philosophy and Phenomenological Research vol. LXV, no. 1, July 2002, pp. 208 – 217.
16. “The Best Is the Enemy of the Good: Bayesian epistemology as a case study in unhelpful idealization,” in Logic, Probability, and Science, ed. Niall Shanks, Robert B. Gardner, Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities Vol. 71, Rodopi (Amsterdam – Atlanta GA) 2000, pp 112 - 130.
17. "Response to Bonevac, (Asher, and Morreau)," in Logic, Probability, and Science, 2000, pp 209 - 213.
18. "Response to Nowak," in Logic, Probability, and Science, 2000, pp 134 -5.
19. “The Word Made Flesh: toward a neo-Sellarsian view of concepts and their analysis,” Acta Analytica Volume 15, Issue 25, 2000, pp. 117-135.
20. “Reply to Pitt,” (with John O’Leary-Hawthorne), Philosophical Books vol. 41, no. 2, (2000) pp. 95 – 97.
21. "Some Reflections on the Sport of Language," Philosophical Perspectives, 12: Language, Mind, and Ontology, Jim Tomberlin editor, Blackwell, pp. 219 - 240, 1998.
22. "The Significance of Anaphoric Theories of Truth and Reference," in Truth: Philosophical Issues 8, edited by Enrique Villanueva, Ridgeview Publishing Co., 1997, pp 181-199; reprinted in Truth, ed. Bradley Armour-Garb and JC Beall, Open Court Press, 2001.
23. The Grammar of Meaning (with John O'Leary-Hawthorne) Cambridge University Press, December 1997.
24. "Subjective Probability and Acceptance," Philosophical Studies, 77, no. 1; pp. 147-179, January 1995.
25. "Two Dogmas of Post-empiricism, anti-theoretical strains in Rorty and Derrida," (with Todd May), Philosophical Forum Vol. XXV, No. 4, pp 273-309, 1994.
26. "Probabilistic Dependence Among Conditionals," The Philosophical Review, Vol. C, No. 2 (April 1991).
27. "The Grammar of Meaning," in Wittgenstein — Towards a Re-Evaluation, ed. Rudolf Haller and Johannes Brandl, Verlag Holder-Pichler-Tempsky, Wien 1990, pp. 156-160.
28. "Rules, Practices and Norms," in Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Symposium on the Centenial of His Birth, ed. by Souren Teghrarian, Anthony Serafini, and Edward M. Cook, Wakefield, NH, Longwood Academic, 1990.
29. "From a Normative Point of View," (with John Hawthorne), Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 71, no. 1, March 1990, pp. 28-47.
30. "Reference Without Causation," Philosophical Studies 45 (1984), pp. 335-351.
LOGIC AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF MATHEMATICS
1. “Finitistic Grasp of Infinite Totalities: reflections on Tate and others” (with K.J. Mourad) – work in progress
2. “The Logical Structure of Linguistic Commitment III: Brandomian scorekeeping and
incompatibility,” The Journal of Philosophical Logic, Vol. 30, No. 5, October 2001, pp. 439 - 464.
3. "Quantification, Substitution and Conceptual Content," Nous 30: 4, 1996, pp. 481-507.
4. "The Logical Structure of Linguistic Commitment II: Systems of Relevant Commitment Entailment," (with Philip Kremer) in The Journal of Philosophical Logic, Vol. 25, No. 4, August 1996, pp 425-449.
5. "Two Concepts of Entailment," The Journal of Philosophical Research.vol XX, pp. 113-137, 1995.
6. "The Logical Structure of Linguistic Commitment I: Four Systems of Non-relevant Commitment Entailment," (with Philip Kremer), The Journal of Philosophical Logic 23; pp. 369-400, 1994.
7. "The Logic of Contingent Relevant Implication: A Conceptual Incoherence in the Intuitive Foundation of R," Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 29 no. 4, Fall 1988, pp. 520-529.
MORAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
1. “Why is Morality Governed by Defeasible Laws?” work in progress
2. “Counterstories, Stock Characters, and Varieties of Narrative Resistance: Response to Lindemann,” forthcoming in Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy.
3. “Principled Nonviolence Entails Anarchism,” The Peace Chronicle: newsletter of the Peace and Justice Studies Association, Fall/Winter 2018, www.peacejusticestudies.org, pp 9-11.
4. “Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli: the pragmatic topography of second personal calls” (with Rebecca Kukla), Ethics vol 123, no 3, April 2013, pp 456-78.
5. “Life is Not a Box Score: lived normativity, moral evaluation, and the is/ought distinction,” in Meaning Without Representation: essays on truth, expression, normativity, and naturalism, ed. by Steven Gross, Nicholas Tebben, Michael Williams, Oxford University Press 2016.
6. “From Particularism to Defeasibility,” (with Margaret Little), in Challenging Moral Particularism.
7. “Where The Laws Are,” (with Margaret Little), Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Vol II, ed. Russ Shafer-Landau, Oxford University Press. 2007, pp 149 - 171.
8. “Particularism and Anti-Theory,” (with Margaret Little), in David Copp, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Ethical Theory, Oxford University Press, 2006, pp. 567-594.
9. “Defending Moral Particularism,” (with Margaret Little) in James Dreier, ed. Contemporary Debates in Moral Theory, Blackwell 2005, pp.305-321.
10. "Beyond Foundationalism and Its Opposites: toward a reasoned ethics for political action," (with Todd May), in American Behavioral Scientist, Vol. 38, No. 7, June/July 1995, pp. 976-990.
SELECTED WRITING ON JUSTICE, PEACE, AND ACTIVISM
1. Revolutionary Nonviolence (With Matt Meyer) in progress
2. “Speaking For, Speaking With, and Shutting up: Models of solidarity and the pragmatics of truth-telling” forthcoming in Philosophers on the Movement for Black Lives, Eds Brandon Hogan, Alex Madva, and Ben Yost, Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2019.
3. “Academic Participation in social movements: a call for ethical review”Blog post/article: Open for Debate http://blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openfordebate 2019.
4. “An Irritant in the Academic Body: The place of Peace and Justice Studies in the modern University,” forthcoming in Critical Peace Pedagogy, ed Emily Welty, Margaret Groarke, 2019.
5. “Impure Prefiguration: comments on Alexis Shotwell’s Against Purity,” APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy, vol 18 No 1, ed Serena Parekh, Fall 2018.
6. “Further thoughts on nonviolent resistance: comments on Nonviolent Resistance: A Philosophical Introduction, by Todd May, Online Syndicate Symposium, with follow-up discussion, May 2018.
7. “Ferguson and the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of Violence,” (with David Ragland,
Wayne Adams, and Mahdis Azarmandi). Common Dreams Nov 14 2014. https://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/11/14/ferguson-and-self-fulfilling-prophesy-violence
8. “On The Culture of Masculinity,” The Peace Chronicle – newsletter of the Peace and Justice Studies Association, Winter 2014, pg 7.
9. “Civil Society and Civil Disobedience: Strategy and Tactics of solidarity,” in Proceedings from the 2005 United Nations meeting on the implementation of the International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion on the Wall in Occupied Palestine.
10. “Toward a unified strategy of Solidarity with Palestine: The case for the Caterpillar campaign,” Proceedings of the 2005 Trans-Arab Research Institute conference.
11. “Fetishizing Process,” Social Anarchism #38, 2005. Reprinted and widely debated on numerous websites, and in the volume The Best of Social Anarchism, See Sharp Press, 2013.
12. “Challenging Left Dogma on the Draft,” Left Turn, 2004, widely distributed and debated on the web.
13. “Walls, ‘states,’ and resistance,” in Washington Report On Middle East Affairs, October 2003.
14. “Israel’s Apartheid Wall and Palestinian Resistance,” published in Left Turn, Dec/Jan 2003/04.
15. “Not an anti-war movement,” published in Left Turn, Fall 2001, and The Peace Chronicle, Fall 2001.
16. “Anti-Authoritarian activism in the wake of Sept. 11” in Perspectives on AnarchistTheory, Summer 2002.
17. “Identity Judgments, Queer Politics,” (with Alessandra Tanesini), Radical Philosophy 100, March/April 2000. Reprinted in Queer Theory (Readers in Cultural Criticism Series), ed Morland, Willox, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2004.
18. “Study, Act, Reflect, and Analyze: Service Learning and the Justice and Peace Studies Program at Georgetown,” (with Sam Marullo and Henry Schwarz), in Teaching for Justice: Concepts and models for service-learning in Peace Studies, Kathleen Maas Weigert and Robin J. Crews, eds., American Association for Higher Education, 1999, pp. 47 – 55.
EDITED WORK IN PHILOSOPHY
1. The Self-Correcting Enterprise: New Essays on Wilfrid Sellars (co-edited with Michael Wolf), Poznan Studies in Philosophy, 2007.
2. Challenging Moral Particularism (co-edited with Matjaz Portc, and Vojko Strahovnik), Routledge, 2007.
3. Philosophical Studies, guest editor of special issue on the philosophy of Wilfrid Sellars, December 2000.
REVIEWS
1. Review of Marc Lange, Laws and Lawmakers: Science, Metaphysics, and the Laws of
Nature, (with Margaret Little), Ethics, vol 120, no 2, January 2010, pp 431-437
2. Review of Practical Reality, (with Matthew McAdam) Jonathan Dancy, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000, Ethics, vol 115, no 2, January 2005.
3. Review of Reconsidering Difference: Nancy, Derrida, Levinas, Deleuze, Todd May, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, May 2000, pp. 721-724.
4. Review of Jaakko Hintikka (Profiles, volume 8), Radu Bogdan (ed.), History and Philosophy of Logic, vol. 9 #2, 1988, pp. 246-250.
5. Review of Conditionals, Frank Jackson, History and Philosophy of Logic, vol. 11, 1989 pp. 103-105.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Scandinavian defense: Portuguese Variation (with Mike Cornell, and John Roush) Chess Enterprises Inc., 1998.
“Cognitive Dissident,” semi-weekly column in The Hoya, student newspaper at Georgetown University.
Regular contributor to Newappsblog.com from inception to 2015.
PRESENTATIONS
Over 120 philosophical presentations at universities and academic meetings.
Over 250 presentations on political and activist topics to universities, community organizations, religious institutions, conferences, and activist meetings.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Referee for Oxford University Press, Harvard University Press, University of Chicago Press, Kluwer, Cambridge University Press, MIT Press, Blackwell, Routledge, Philosophical Studies, Journal of Philosophical Logic, Hypatia, Nous, Analysis, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Mind, Journal of Philosophical Research, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Dialogue, Philosophers’ Imprint, Erkenntnis, Ethics, Acta Analytica, Journal of Philosophy, and Peace and Change.
Editorial board, Peace and Change, 1998 – present.
Board of directors, Institute for Anarchist Studies, 2005 - 2012.
Editorial board, Perspectives in Anarchist Theory, 2005 - 2012.
Editorial board Affinities, 2005 – 2010.
Co-editor, Peace and Change Fall 2001 – Jan 2006.
Member, national steering committee, US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation,
2004 – 2010, committee co-chair, 2005 – 2010.
Board of Directors, Consortium on Peace Research, Education, and Development 1996 - 2001, co-chair of board, 1999 – 2001.
Interim board of directors, Peace and Justice Studies Association, 2001-2002.
Board of directors, Peace and Justice Studies Association, 2013 – 2015.
Steering Committee, Advisory Board, and founding member The Truth Telling Project – 2015-present. (Thetruthtellingproject.org)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Introductory Level:
Introduction to philosophy, Introduction to logic, Ethics, Philosophy of Music, Free Will, Introduction to Justice and Peace Studies, Human Nature, Critical Thinking, Philosophy of Science.
Intermediate and Advanced Undergraduate:
Metaphysics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Language, Wittgenstein, Nonviolence, Sustaining Activism, Research Methods (Justice and Peace Studies), Senior Seminar (Justice and Peace Studies), Philosophy of Mathematics, Intermediate Logic.
Graduate: Model Theory, Relevance Logic, Epistemology Proseminar, Sellars, Brandom, Hegel and Sellars, Pragmatics, Normativity, Inferentialism, Pragmatism, Normativity, Haugeland and Dennett, Defeasibility.
AWARDS and “AWARDS”
Listed on at least 10 blacklists that I know of.
Officially declared a “race traitor” by contributors to StormFront.org, a major white supremacist web site, which featured my article on immigration for over a week as their centerpiece target of attack.
Senior Faculty Research Leave, Georgetown University (Spring 1997, Fall 2001, Spring 2019).
Special award for leadership and service, presented by the Consortium on Peace
Research, Education, and Development at the annual conference, October 2001.
William Jefferson Clinton award, sarcastic award given by The Academy (right-wing
Catholic alumni-student publication at Georgetown University) to the professor they consider to have done the most to corrupt the moral fiber of Georgetown in the previous academic year (Spring 2000)
Annual teaching award, Volunteer and Public Service Center, Georgetown University (1998-9)
Junior Faculty Research Leave, Georgetown University (Spring 1994)
Summer Research Grant, Georgetown University (1992, '93, '95, 2001, 2007)
Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities (1983-85, 1987-88)
Teaching Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh (1985-87)
National Merit Scholar (1977-81)