The First CONTRARIWISE Interview

Last May, Mark Balawender, communications director for PLATO (Philosophy Learning and Teaching Organization), interviewed the CONTRARIWISE co-editors-in-chief and two contributors. His wonderful piece was published today on the PLATO website.

CONTRARIWISE is my school’s philosophy journal. The inaugural issue, released last February, received a lovely review from Cynthia Haven. The second issue will feature an international contest!

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by Diana Senechal on September 2, 2014  •  Permalink
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  1. Carl

     /  September 17, 2014

    Love this idea! Congratulations to your students and you — making the leap from participating in a philosophical discussion to orchestrating one is exactly what any teacher would hope for.

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    • Diana Senechal

       /  September 21, 2014

      Thank you, Carl! The editors-in-chief are now getting ready for the second issue. There will be an international contest and two national contests. Announcements are coming soon.

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    Diana Senechal is the author of Republic of Noise: The Loss of Solitude in Schools and Culture and the 2011 winner of the Hiett Prize in the Humanities, awarded by the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture. Her second book, Mind over Memes: Passive Listening, Toxic Talk, and Other Modern Language Follies, was published by Rowman & Littlefield in October 2018. In April 2022, Deep Vellum published her translation of Gyula Jenei's 2018 poetry collection Mindig Más.

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