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, perhaps for ...

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 ...

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

By Pippa Bailey In the acknowledgements at the end of her new book, Open Socrates, the philosopher Agnes Callard writes ... Eventually, they all moved in together, and Callard and her second husband ...

Agnes Callard is a professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago and she lives with her current husband and her ex-husband. At the same time, yes. They raised the kids together as well (two ...

(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 ...

In “Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life,” the philosopher Agnes Callard aims to rewind the tape to the beginnings of Western thought, where we can see its mechanisms in vivid relief.

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But in “Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life,” Agnes Callard illustrates how philosophy isn’t just a spectator sport. It requires engaging with one another and arguing with each ...