Michael Lynch (ethnomethodologist)
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Michael Lynch is a professor at the department of Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University
. His works are particularly concerned with ethnomethodological approaches in science studies. Much of his research has addressed the role of visual representation in scientific practice.
He is currently the editor of Social Studies of Science
.
Cornell University
Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
. His works are particularly concerned with ethnomethodological approaches in science studies. Much of his research has addressed the role of visual representation in scientific practice.
He is currently the editor of Social Studies of Science
Social Studies of Science
Social Studies of Science is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers relating to the history and philosophy of science. The journal's editor-in-chief is Michael Lynch...
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Selection of works by Michael Lynch
- 1997 Scientific practice and ordinary action: ethnomethodology and social studies of science. Cambridge University Press
- 1990 Representation in Scientific Practice. (ed) MIT Press
- 1988 "The externalized retina: Selection and mathematization in the visual documentation of objects in the life sciences" Human Studies Volume 11, Numbers 2-3
- 1981 "The Work of a Discovering Science Construed with Materials from the Optically Discovered Pulsar." (with GarfinkelHarold GarfinkelHarold Garfinkel was a Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is known for establishing and developing ethnomethodology as a field of inquiry in sociology.-Biography:...
and E. Livingston) Philosophy of the Social Sciences 11: 131-158.