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

She was born in Budapest, Hungary, and attended the University of Chicago as an undergraduate. Her book, Aspiration: The Agency of Becoming (2018) discusses the major value-transformations that shape our lives: becoming parents, changes in political views, acquiring new passions. How do these changes happen, and to what extent does a person have a hand in guiding them?