What does it mean to feel at home in the world? What is the role of friendship in this? And what is the role of solitude?
In his work on belonging, Dr. Ian Marcus Corbin shows that the healthy human self is not tightly bounded, but distributed amongst a network of friends. Drawing on classical philosophy, literature and contemporary science, Dr. Corbin argues that a contemporary epidemic of loneliness might be addressed by a greater understanding of the role of solitude in human relationships.
Dr. Matthew Crawford (author of Shop Class as Soul Craft) will engage Dr. Corbin in conversation about why and how solitude might be an important antidote to consumerism, loneliness, polarization - and a way back to authentic friendship.
Location: 2134 Allston Way, 2nd Floor
Time: 5:30 - 7pm
Date: Friday, April 8th, 2022
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Ian Marcus Corbin, PhD
Philosopher, research fellow in neurology at Brigham and Women's Hospital / Harvard Medical School, and a Senior Fellow at the think tank Capita. He has studied politics, religion and philosophy at Gordon College, Oxford University, Yale University and Boston College, with an eye to the ways that deep human values function in the formation and evolution of human communities. At HMS he studies intersubjectivity, cognition and human flourishing. He is writing a book on belonging and worldmaking for Yale University Press. 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.
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Matthew Crawford, PhD
Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia and author of Why We Drive, The World Beyond Your Head, and Shop Class as Soul Craft. He attended the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he majored in physics. He earned a Ph.D. in political philosophy from the University of Chicago, specializing in ancient political thought.
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