Agnes Callard

Agnes Callard is an Associate Professor in Philosophy. She received her BA from the University of Chicago in 1997 and her PhD from Berkeley in 2008. Her primary areas of specialization are Ancient Philosophy and Ethics. She is currently Director of Undergraduate Studies.

Aspiration (2017); (i) reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement by Adam Bales; (ii) Reviewed in On Riding the Dragon by Katherine October Matthews

“Transformative Activity in Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend,” forthcoming in Transformative Experience, ed. John Schwenkler and Enoch Lambert (Oxford University Press)

Ignorance and Akrasia-Denial in the Protagoras (Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy vol. 47)

"Enkratēs Phronimos" (Archiv für Geschichte Der Philosophie 99, no. 1, 2017)

"Everyone Desires the Good: Socrates' Protreptic Theory of Desire," Review of Metaphysics 70, no. 4 (2017)

"Aristotle on Deliberation," forthcoming in the Routledge Handbook of Practical Reason, ed. Ruth Chang and Kurt Sylvan

"The Reason to Be Angry Forever," forthcoming in The Moral Psychology of Anger, ed. Owen Flanagan and Myisha Cherry (part of Rowman and Littlefield's Moral Psychology of the Emotions series, series editor Mark Alfano)

"Proleptic Reasons" (Oxford Studies in Meta-Ethics, vol. 11)

"The Weaker Reason" (Harvard Review of Philosophy, vol. 22)

Liberal Education and the Possibility of Valuational Progress, Social Philosophy and Policy 34, no. 2 (2017)

-- Is There Progress in Philosophy? Guest post on Daily Nous (5/27/18)

-- Interviewed by 3am Magazine on flattery, anger and other topics (4/27/18)

-- Interviewed by Economist Tyler Cowen on wanting to live forever, Elena Ferrante, and other topics (4/11/18)

-- Essay on Aspirational Faith in New York Times' Stone column (1/8/2018)

Agnes Callard's lectures and podcasts

For full list of Agnes Callard's courses back to the 2012-13 academic year, see our searchable course database.