Agnes Callard

Agnes Callard is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of Undergraduate Studies at the University of Chicago. She received her MA in Classics, and her PhD in Philosophy, both from UC Berkeley. She has just written a book titled Aspiration: the Agency of Becoming , which offers an account of how we work to acquire new values. In the book, she argues that value-acquisition should be understood as a learning process, and thus that there is a distinctively practical form of learning. She...See more

Agnes Callard is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of Undergraduate Studies at the University of Chicago. She received her MA in Classics, and her PhD in Philosophy, both from UC Berkeley. She has just written a book titled Aspiration: the Agency of Becoming , which offers an account of how we work to acquire new values. In the book, she argues that value-acquisition should be understood as a learning process, and thus that there is a distinctively practical form of learning. She also works in ancient philosophy, having written articles on Plato's Protagoras, Gorgias, Hippias Minor and Meno, and on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. See less