Career
He is the author of Truth in Context (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 1998), True to Life (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2004), Truth as One and Many (Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 2009), and In Praise of Reason (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012) as well as many professional philosophical articles He was editor of the volume The Nature of Truth: Classic and Contemporary Perspectives (Bradford Books, 2001), co-editor with Professor Heather Battaly of the volume Perspectives on the Philosophy of William P. Alston (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005), as well as co-editor with Professor Patrick Greenough of the volume Truth and Realism (Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 2006). He is also a contributor to the New York Times philosophy editorial blog The Stone.
Lynch is most well known for his pluralist theory of truth.
He holds that truth is a functional property, id est (that is) that it is characterized by a particular function that can be realized in many different ways. Foreign instance, some truths might realize truth"s function by corresponding to reality while others might do so by cohering with a larger set of propositions.
His work on the value of truth has also attracted attention, including critical reactions from philosophers ranging from Marian David to Richard Rorty.
