Founded in 2008 by Fabrizio Desideri and Giovanni Matteucci, "Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico" is a peer-reviewed Open Access Journal whose focal aim is to promote interdisciplinary and transcultural research and debate in Aesthetics and the arts. Transcending traditional subject boundaries and understanding the notion of "aesthetic" as a pervasive component of human cultures and life forms, Aisthesis innovatively integrates a major focus on the intersection between aesthetics and the contemporary sciences (biology, psychology, neurosciences) with an in-depth interest in the history of the discipline, its leading classics and great metaphysical questions.

While adopting a renewed conception of aesthetics as the privileged point of view of its publications, "Aisthesis" nevertheless very willingly accepts proposals for collaboration relating to the entire spectrum of philosophical research, without disciplinary limitations.

“Aisthesis” is published two times per year and welcomes insightful academic articles and timely book reviews. Each “Aisthesis” issue includes thematic sections, in the form of both a main topic and a special focus, as well as a Varia section, followed by a more agile section dedicated to Notes, discussions, book reviews. Call for papers related to main topic and to special focus are regularly announced on the journal website.

"Aisthesis" is a Class-A Anvur Journal for the disciplines of the macro-sector 11/C Philosophy. It is indexed, among others, in The Philosopher's Index, SCOPUS, PhilPapers, Google Scholar, and WoS Clarivate.

From 2008 to 2023 "Aisthesis" was published by Firenze University Press. The archive of all issues of “Aisthesis” from Vol. 1 to Vol. 16 is entirely accessible at this address:
https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/aisthesis/issue/archive
From the first issue of 2024 "Aisthesis" is published by Mimesis.

RIGOROUS PEER REVIEW

Each submission to “Aisthesis” is subject to a rigorous quality control and peer-review evaluation process before receiving a decision. The initial in-house quality control check deals with issues such as competing interests; ethical requirements for studies involving human participants or animals; financial disclosures; full compliance with Aisthesis's data availability policy, etc. 
Submissions may be returned to authors for queries  and will not be seen by our Editorial Board or peer reviewers until they pass this quality control check.

OPEN ACCESS POLICY

Aisthesis provides immediate open access to its content. Our publisher, Mimesis, complies with the Budapest Open Access Initiative definition of Open Access: By “open access”, we mean the free availability on the public internet, the permission for all users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full text of the articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain is to guarantee the original authors with control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited