Fans of her pointed iconoclasm will enjoy her new book, “Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life.” The book fleshes out the character and thought of Socrates to mount a full-throated defense ...

What Boethius described was no symptom of carceral derangement; the lady was his metaphor for the power of philosophy to breathe life back into a deadened soul. With luck, you are not reading this ...

Callard is a University of Chicago moral philosopher with a madcap streak, and a perpetually controversial figure for making ...

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We live in anxious times. But there is a long tradition of philosophical thought that addresses the problem of anxiety.

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. But in “Open Socrates: The Case ...

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Callard's book is intellectually challenging and hardly a simple crash course on Socrates, but the payoff is worth the time and effort put into rethinking approaches to philosophy and life.

This cover mage released by Norton shows "Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life" by Agnes Callard. (Norton via AP) Callard’s book is intellectually challenging and hardly a simple ...