[2] As director of the Humanities Institute, he headed a Templeton-funded project on humility and conviction in public life.

[4] Lynch argues for a coherence theory of truth, which allows for a limited form of relativism.

[5] His work on the value of truth has also attracted attention, including critical reactions from philosophers ranging from Marian David[6] to Richard Rorty.

[10] Lynch is the author of Truth in Context (MIT Press, 1998), True to Life (MIT Press, 2004), Truth as One and Many (OUP, 2009), In Praise of Reason (MIT, 2012), The Internet of Us: Knowing More and Understanding Less in the Age of Big Data (Liveright Publishing, 2016), and Know-It-All-Society: Truth and Arrogance in Political Culture (Liveright Publishing, 2019), as well as many professional philosophical articles.

[15][16][17] Lynch won the Orwell Award in 2019 for his book Know-It-All Society: Truth and Arrogance in Political Culture.