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Some thoughts on love and reading - by Alistair Kitchen

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Philosophy, like every other academic discipline, is gossip-prone. So when Rachel Aviv’s New Yorker profile of Agnes Callard’s marriage was released this week, the story was old news to a lot of us. Even I, who left graduate philosophy in 2017, was familiar with all the main beats. But many people are wise enough to not study philosophy! There was more than enough intrigue to go round. Agnes Callard’s Marriage of the Minds is one of those pieces that goes viral on Twitter every few months among a certain type of person (reader, that person is us!). Many liked it. But I suppose I’m interested by the people who didn’t, who responded to the piece with one of the following themes: Agnes Callard is weird Agnes Callard is weird Ugh, why are we supposed to be interested in Agnes Callard? This is cheap and voyeuristic. Why doesn’t this piece get that Agnes Callard is weird? (I don’t really feel like doing that thing where I link to tweets to prove to you what the Discourse is Saying About This

Some thoughts on love and reading with thanks to Agnes Callard Alistair Kitchen Mar 09, 2023 19 2 Share Oaxaca, 2020 Philosophy, like every other academic discipline, is gossip-prone. So when Rachel Aviv’s New Yorker profile of Agnes Callard’s marriage was released this week, the story was old news to a lot of us. Even I, who left graduate philosophy in 2017, was familiar with all the main beats. But many people are wise enough to not study philosophy! There was more than enough intrigue to go round. Agnes Callard’s Marriage of the Minds is one of those pieces that goes viral on Twitter every

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