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Conversation with Arthur Wolf

Arthur Wolf recently finished his Ph.D. at the University of British Columbia, where he wrote his dissertation, ‘Intensive Resonances: A Deleuzian Pedagogy of Difference in Philosophizing with Children.’ He is the Education Director at the Thinking Playground and assistant director at the Vancouver Institute of Philosophy for Children (VIP4C) and was on the executive board of the International Council for Philosophical Inquiry with Children (ICPIC). He also organizes philosophical inquiry projects in Ghana and Ivory Coast, worked with UNESCO on philosophy and education-related projects in Asia and the Pacific and worked with P4C organizations in South Korea and Japan. He has a background in philosophy, psychology and education. Dr. Wolf engages with affect theories, phenomenology and the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze's work to rethink the relation between the body, experience and thinking. Thinking here becomes a matter of an existential urgency (Wolf & Weber, 2023). In his work, he develops an affective conception of thinking leading to questions like ‘What is the relation between sensibility and thinking?’, ‘How do transformation and temporality relate?’ and ‘What does this mean for the potential of resistance and freedom in thought?’ From that perspective, he looks at the implications for learning and teaching and how to cultivate pedagogical spaces (for example, classrooms, philocafés, museums, and community centers). Such spaces have both physical and affective or intensive dimensions: we feel ourselves entering a space as it enters us. In a recent essay entitled ‘Affect and Philosophical Inquiry with Children’ for which he was awarded the 2022 essay prize by ICPIC and which will be published in the journal Childhood & Philosophy, he looks at how this changes the way we look at children, facilitation, and curriculum design (moving from P4C modules to a curricular experience).