Agnes Callard is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago and has been a recipient of a Mellon Fellowship. She earned her B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Chicago and M.A. in Classics and Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley.

Professor Callard specializes in ancient philosophy and ethics.

Representative Publications

Callard, Agnes G. “Ignorance and Akrasia-Denial in the Protagoras.” Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 47 (2014): 31-80.

Callard, Agnes. “Everyone Desires the Good: Socrates’ Protreptic Theory of Desire.” The Review of Metaphysics 70.4 (2017): 617-644.

Callard, Agnes. “The Weaker Reason.” The Harvard Review of Philosophy 22 (2015): 68-83.