Ian Marcus Corbin

Ian Marcus Corbin is a philosopher on faculty in Neurology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital / Harvard Medical School, and a Faculty Member at the HMS Center for Bioethics. He directs Harvard’s Public Culture Project, and serves as a Senior Fellow at the think tank Capita, co-directs the Trust and Belonging Initiative at Harvard’s Human Flourishing Program, and serves on the  ethics  committee  at Brigham and Women's Hospital. His philosophical work examines issues of intersubjectivity, community and cognitive flourishing. He 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 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.