Matthew B. Crawford
Matthew B. Crawford is a Senior Fellow at the University of Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture and a New York Times bestselling author. He studied physics as an undergraduate, then the history of political thought (Ph.D. University of Chicago). He is the author of Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work, The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction Why We Drive: Toward a Philosophy of the Open Road. His shorter writings have appeared in First Things, Wall Street Journal, The New Atlantis, The Hedgehog Review, Le Figaro, Le Monde, Esprit, Unherd, Compact and at his Substack, Archedelia.
Links to posts and programs featuring Matthew B. Crawford:
- What is at stake for us in a self-driving future? — Matthew Crawford vividly details the “personal knowledge” acquired in interaction with physical things, their mecho-systems, and the people who care for them. (16 minutes)
- The gift of meaningful work — In this lecture, D. C. Schindler argues that genuine work is inherently meaningful and facilitates an encounter with reality and therefore, ultimately, with God. (36 minutes)
- Mars Hill Audio Journal, Volume 150 — FEATURED GUESTS:
David I. Smith, Eric O. Jacobsen, Matthew Crawford, Andrew Davison, Joseph E. Davis, and Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung
- Mars Hill Audio Journal, Volume 128 — FEATURED GUESTS:
Matthew Crawford, Carlo Lancellotti, James Turner, Rod Dreher, Mark Evan Bonds, and Jeremy Beer
- Getting outside of our heads — FROM VOL. 128Philosopher and motorcycle mechanic Matthew Crawford explores what forms the self, arguing that individuality is an earned competence achieved through habits of submission to various tasks, traditions, and authorities. (20 minutes)
- Dialectic of reverence and rebellion — Matthew B. Crawford on the personal knowledge acquired in apprenticeship
- Craftsmanship and the infallible judgment of reality — Matthew B. Crawford on the psychic satisfactions of manual work
- Automation and human agency — FROM VOL. 150 Philosopher and mechanic Matthew Crawford laments the losses of human skill that correspond with gains in mechanical automation. (21 minutes)
