Ian Marcus Corbin is a philosopher on the Neurology faculty at Brigham and Women's Hospital & Harvard Medical School, where he co-directs the Human Network Initiative, and is a Senior Fellow at the think tank Capita. His philosophical work examines the connections between modes of intersubjectivity, cognition and human flourishing, and he is writing a book on belonging and world-making for Yale University Press. He serves on the  ethics  committee  at Brigham and Women's, and helps to direct the Trust and Belonging Initiative at Harvard's Human Flourishing Program.

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.