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Agnes Callard’s Marriage of the Minds | The New Yorker

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The philosopher, who lives with her husband and her ex-husband, searches for what one human can be to another human.

Save this story Save this story Arnold Brooks, a graduate student at the University of Chicago, came to Agnes Callard’s office hours every week to talk about Aristotle. At the last session of the quarter, in the spring of 2011, they discussed Aristotle’s treatise Metaphysics, and what it means to be one—as opposed to more than one. “It was the sort of question where I felt it would be reasonable to feel ecstatic if you made some kind of progress,” Arnold told me. Agnes was the only person he’d ever met who seemed to feel the same way. Agnes specializes in ancient philosophy and ethics, but she

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