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

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

Wesley Hill’s small volume about Easter is a beautiful and useful invitation to be shocked anew by the central event of our faith.

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

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 ...

During a time when many are complaining about divisiveness in politics and in society, it seems counterintuitive for a book to make the case that we need to argue more.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Plato's accounts of the last days of Socrates in which he kept doing philosophy right up to the point of his execution by hemlock. Show more Melvyn Bragg and guests ...

Adams’s book explores class as well as race ... Could the secret to a good life be devoting yourself to thought, the way Socrates did? So argues Callard, a philosopher at the University of ...

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This hour, philosopher Agnes Callard joins us to talk about her new book, Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life. Subscribe to The Noseletter, an email compendium of merriment, secrets, and ...

To any question you can ask, there’s apparently already an answer; in fact, there seem to be more answers than questions.