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Mark Lance

Disciplines:
ethics
philosophy/philosophy of language

Summary

American philosopher who has worked on inferentialism, normative pragmatics, and the relationship between language and ethics.

Core Contribution

The Grammar of Meaning (with John O'Leary-Hawthorne): a normative pragmatics account of meaning — meaning is constituted by the norms governing speech acts.

Notable Works & Achievements

The Grammar of Meaning

Historical Influences

Robert Brandom Wilfrid Sellars

Intellectual Lineage

Analytic Philosophy of Language

Contemporaries & Peers

Robert Brandom

Minds Influenced

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Intellectual Posterity

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