Ian Marcus Corbin

Ian Marcus Corbin is a philosopher on faculty in Neurology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital / Harvard Medical School, Director of Harvard’s Public Culture Project, and an instructor at the HMS Center for Bioethics. He also serves as a Senior Fellow at the think tank Capita, and advises elected officials at the federal and state level, along with leaders of for-profit and non-profit enterprises, on issues of belonging, culture and flourishing. His first book, To Arrive Where We Started: Belonging in the Modern World, is available for preorder from Yale University Press, by clicking HERE

Corbin’s philosophical work examines issues of intersubjectivity, community and cognitive flourishing. He has studied politics, religion and philosophy at Gordon College, Oxford University, Yale University and Boston College, always with an eye to the ways that deep human values function in the formation and evolution of human communities. He has taught at a number of colleges and universities in the Boston area and published widely in venues such as the Washington Post, The New York Times, Newsweek, The Point and Plough. He is represented by Inkwell Management. In a former life he founded and ran a contemporary art gallery in Boston's South End.