Matthew Crawford

Matthew B. Crawford is an American writer and research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia.

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. 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."

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.

In film Crawford appeared in the 2014 documentary Merchants of Doubt.

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.