Bill Lynch, Assistant Professor/History and Philosophy of Early Modern Science/ Science and Technology Studies/Science and Engineering Pedagogy/ ae8917@wayne.edu

Web Page: http://www.is.wayne.edu/blynch/

Professor Lynch is a scholar in the interdisciplinary field of Science and Technology Studies. He has published a book, Solomon's Child: Baconian Method in the Early Royal Society of London (Stanford University Press, Writing Science Series, 2001). While a postdoctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, Germany, he began a new project on William Petty's Down Survey of Ireland in the seventeenth century; a project at the interface between history of science and technology and social and political history. He carried out original research on this project at the British Library. He has contributed articles and conference presentations in the history of science, science studies and social theory, and engineering ethics. He coedited the book Controversial Science from Content to Contention (SUNY Press). His research has been published in leading journals including Social Studies of Science and Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. He has also served frequently as peer reviewer for professional journals and for the National Science Foundation. He serves on the editorial board of Social Epistemology and is active in several professional organizations.