Matthew Crawford
Crawford is an American writer and research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia.
Also recorded as Matthew B. Crawford
Matthew Crawford
- Born
- 1965 · Virginia.
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- philosopher · writer · professor · bicycle mechanic · docent
- Education
- University of Chicago
- Languages
- English
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Early life and education
Early life and education
Crawford majored in physics as an undergraduate, then turned to political philosophy. He earned his PhD from the University of Chicago.
Career
Career
In September 2001, Crawford accepted a position as executive director of the George C. Marshall Institute, but left the institute after five months, saying that "the trappings of scholarship were used to put a scientific cover on positions arrived at otherwise. These positions served various interests, ideological or material. For example, part of my job consisted of making arguments about global warming that just happened to coincide with the positions taken by the oil companies that funded the think tank." As of 2020 he is a research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia, a contributing editor at The New Atlantis, and professes to be a motorcycle mechanic.
Selected works
Selected works
• Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work. Penguin Press, 2009.. Published in London as The Case for Working with Your Hands. Viking, 2009.. • The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015. • Why We Drive: Toward a Philosophy of the Open Road, William Morrow, 2020.
In film
Crawford appeared in the 2014 documentary Merchants of Doubt.
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- 1.George C. Marshall Institute, September 2001 press release (web archive) (accessed October 10, 2010)
- 2.Carolyn Mooney, "A Hands-On Philosopher Argues for a Fresh Vision of Manual Work", The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 7, 2009. Web version
- 3.Matthew B. Crawford, Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work, pp. 108–109, Penguin Press, 2009.
- 4.University of Virginia. Institute Fellows. Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture.
- 5.Matthew B. Crawford, Contributing Editor. The New Atlantis.
- 6.Fukuyama, Francis. Making Things Work. The New York Times. 2009-06-05. 0362-4331.
- 7.Klein, Ezra. Is Blue Collar Work "Smart?". The Washington Post. June 1, 2009.
- 8.Sanneh, Kelefa. Out of the Office. The New Yorker. June 22, 2009.
- 9.Garner, Dwight. Real Men Don't Eat Quiche, They Ride Hogs Over It. The New York Times. 2009-05-28. 0362-4331.
- 10.Goldstein, Rebecca Newberger. Don't Overthink It. The Atlantic. 2015-04-22.
- 11.Morris, Iain. The World Beyond Your Head review – philosophical inquiry that demands your attention. The Observer. 2015-05-04.
- 12.Adams, Tim. Why We Drive review – a motorist puts his foot down. The Guardian. 2020-07-06.
- 13.Hakimi, Lauren. 'Why We Drive' Takes Aim at Self-Driving Vehicles and Other Threats to Car Culture. Observer. 2020-06-10.
- 14.Shiflett, Dave. 'Why We Drive' Review: Awake at the Wheel. The Wall Street Journal. 2020-06-03. 0099-9660.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 3
- Crawford, Matthew B. Nature, woman and the art of politics. Rowman & Littlefield. 2000. 978-0-8476-9247-7.
- Crawford, Matthew B. The Case for Working With Your Hands. The New York Times. May 21, 2009.
- Crawford, Matthew B. 'Soulcraft' Honors An Honest Day's Work. All Things Considered. NPR. July 12, 2009.
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