As the Editorial for the previous issue had anticipated, the present Editorial inaugurates a new phase in the life of Argumenta. An expanded Editorial Board and three Editors-in-Chief mark an important step in the development of the journal and provide the basis for a more articulated, inclusive, and responsive editorial structure. This new phase is not merely a matter of editorial continuity. It is also an opportunity to strengthen Argumenta’s profile and to broaden its role within the international philosophical community. The renewed Editorial Board brings together scholars working across a wider range of areas in analytic philosophy and reflects different perspectives and career stages. In the coming years, we aim to consolidate Argumenta’s commitment to diamond open access, high-quality peer review, constructive editorial practices, and fair and transparent procedures. We also plan to foster innovative formats of philosophical publication that can support more open, collaborative, and accountable forms of scholarly evaluation, while paying special attention to the needs of early-career scholars.
Now, a brief introduction to the current issue.
It opens with the Book Symposium edited by Luca Marchetti and dedicated to Murray Smith’s Film, Art, and the Third Culture: A Naturalized Aesthetics of Film (Oxford University Press 2020). In putting film studies and the cognitive sciences in conversation, the book aims to unsettle the habits of traditional film scholarship and reshape how we think about cinematic experience today. And the discussants brilliantly illuminate the paths Murray Smith took to show this.
The Book Symposium is followed by a Topical Collection edited by Alberto Barbieri, Davide Bordini, and Alessio Tacca, centred on a subject that has recently taken centre stage in the philosophy of perception—high-level perception. The Topical Collection, titled Perceiving High-Level Properties, brings together a range of approaches to the topic, refining the conceptual tools used to draw the low/high-level distinction and reassessing the methodologies that have long been used to evaluate high-level perception.
This issue also includes three articles that have already appeared in Early View, by Hitoshi Omori & Jonas R. B. Arenhart, Giulia Codognato, and Roberto Horácio de Sá Pereira. They have already made, and will continue to make, significant contributions to discussion in their respective fields.
The issue concludes with the Book Reviews section. We are pleased to offer our readers three thoughtful reviews of three noteworthy recent books.
Finally, we would like to thank all the colleagues who served as external referees, the members of the Editorial Board, the editors of the Topical Collection and the Book Symposium, the Book Review editors, and the team of librarians at the University of Sassari—especially Francesca Madrau and Maria Caterina Arru. All of them have been extremely generous with their time, work, advice, and suggestions.
As usual, the articles appearing in Argumenta are freely accessible and downloadable. It therefore only remains to wish you:
Buona lettura!
Cristina Amoretti, Massimo Dell’Utri, and Filippo Ferrari
Editors-in-Chief