Twenty students, eight weeks, one publication.
Each year, The Dialectic Review selects a small cohort for an eight-week seminar in philosophical writing — from locating a claim to a publishable draft — run by student editors alongside an academic advisor.
Sustained mentorship on one piece.
A small-cohort seminar for students who want sustained, structured mentorship on one piece over several weeks, ending in publication. The cohort culminates in a dedicated Fellowship supplement.
Eight weeks, from claim to defense.
Locating a Claim
Start from a topic you care about and narrow it to one claim you are willing to defend.
Finding the Hidden Premise
Surface the assumption your argument quietly depends on — and decide whether you can defend it.
Constructing Objections
Build the strongest challenge to your own claim, naming the exact move it contests.
Revision Workshop I
A first full revision, with feedback from student editors and the academic advisor.
Citation & Evidentiary Standards
Citing consistently and knowing what counts as support for a philosophical claim.
Peer Review Roundtable
Read and be read by the rest of the cohort in a structured roundtable.
Revision Workshop II
A second revision, responding to the roundtable and to the strongest objection.
Final Defense & Submission
Defend the final piece and submit it for the Fellowship supplement.
The cohort, from around the world.
About the Fellowship.
The Fellowship is for secondary-school students, selected each year from an open applicant pool.
In 2025, twenty Fellows were selected from 340 applicants.
A piece developed over eight weeks of structured mentorship and published in the dedicated Fellowship supplement each December.
Applications for the 2026 Fellowship open on March 10.
Student editors of The Dialectic Review, alongside an academic advisor.