Agnes Callard doesn’t just admire Socrates ... and for the movie about her life based on her husband John Bayley’s brutally ...

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 ... and for the movie about her life based on her husband John Bayley’s brutally candid memoirs. Some thought the memoirs had a whiff of payback ...

In the acknowledgements at the end of her new book, Open Socrates, the philosopher Agnes Callard writes: “Socrates compares writing down one’s ideas to planting seeds in barren soil from which nothing ...

Magdalena Wywrot’s moody series “Pestka” captures eleven years in the life that she made with her only child, Barbara.

Later, Mrs. Macy and her husband separated ... In “Open Socrates,” the philosopher Agnes Callard reminds us how thinking should feel.

OPEN SOCRATES: The Case for a Philosophical Life, by Agnes Callard Maybe this is the year that you have resolved to drink less and exercise more. Or maybe you want to be kinder, gentler and more ...

(Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post) Philosopher Agnes Callard revels in contrarianism. She has defended union busting and marital infidelity; denied the appeal of travel; and stood up for throwing ...

Easily recognizable around campus, professor Agnes Callard and her wardrobe are campus celebrities to many. As an associate professor of philosophy with a focus in ethics and ancient philosophy, a ...