Callard is a University of Chicago moral philosopher with a madcap streak, and a perpetually controversial figure for making offbeat public pronouncements and unconventional romantic choices, and ...

In “Open Socrates,” Agnes Callard argues for a way of being that sounds a lot like her own.

Once you have accepted that inquiry demands the presence of an interlocutor, you may wonder what exactly to inquire about.

She wants her book to do double duty: advance a “neo-Socratic ethics” that can pass muster with her fellow philosophers, and offer lay readers an accessible introduction to how “living a tru ...

Athens was deeply polarized over big-picture questions, and Socrates was never hesitant to question both sides’ assumptions – ...

Her superpowers as a philosopher sprung out of the frustration at getting her thoughts and herself across to people who ...

Agnes Callard doesn’t just admire Socrates, the philosopher forced by his fellow Athenians to drink hemlock in 399 BCE; she wants to be him. Entirely conscious of himself as an icon, Callard ...

Ruling is a skilled trade, Plato argues. And like any other trade, not everyone has the talent or the training to be good at ...

The TikTok generation is rediscovering thinkers both ancient and modern who can help them make sense of the world ...