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Michael Patrick Lynch

Biography

Michael Patrick Lynch

Michael P. Lynch is a writer and professor of philosophy at the University of Connecticut, where he directs the Humanities Institute. He is the author or editor of seven books, including In PRAISE OF REASON: Why Rationality Matters for Democracy, as well as TRUTH AS ONE AND MANY and the New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice TRUE TO LIFE. The recipient of the Medal for Research Excellence from the University of Connecticut's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Lynch has held grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and is a frequent contributor to the New York Times's The Stone series.

Michael Patrick Lynch

Books by Michael Patrick Lynch

by Michael Patrick Lynch - Nonfiction, Philosophy

The Internet has revolutionized the way we learn and know, as well as how we interact with each other. And yet this explosion of technological innovation has also produced a curious paradox: even as we know more, we seem to understand less. Demonstrating that knowledge based on reason plays an essential role in society and that there is much more to “knowing” than just acquiring information, leading philosopher Michael Patrick Lynch shows how our digital way of life makes us overvalue some ways of processing information over others, and thus risks distorting what it means to be human.