Agnes Callard

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A Question Well-Posed April 04, 2025

Soren Kierkegaard once remarked that we can never be reminded too often that a man existed named Socrates. Agnes Callard’s Open Socrates thus comes as a particularly timely reminder. Callard is a professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago, ...

Talk Is Deep April 02, 2025

In Open Socrates, the philosopher Agnes Callard asks what it means to live an ethical, fulfilling life and decides, more or less, that it means being like the philosopher Agnes Callard. She is, it seems clear, relentlessly inquisitive and thinks we w...