Awarded for excellence, Dr. Matthew CRIPPEN is a professor at Pusan National University. He has held academic positions in Egypt, the United States, Germany, Canada and now South Korea. His research and teaching focus on cognitive science, AI, Western and non-Western history, politics, art, ethics, ecology, and cross-cultural traditions. Other particular interests include the embodiment of mind, Middle Eastern protest movements, film and digital media studies, global Indigenous philosophies (including East Asian thought), and the aesthetic, political and psychological functioning of cities and popular art.
With over 50 publications (a few in collaboration with PNU students), his work has appeared in top journals. This includes repeated entries in Synthese, Topoi and Transactions of the Charles Peirce Society, alongside other journals like Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, Philosophical Psychology, Environmental Ethics, Religions, Frontiers in Psychology and the British Journal of Aesthetics. He also has a Columbia University Press Book, titled Mind Ecologies: Body, Brain, and World. Outside the academy, he has worked as a musician, mandolin and guitar instructor and gymnastics coach.