Abstract

In their opening editorial the new Editors of MIND, Lucy O’Brien and Adrian Moore, explained that while the journal will continue to publish book reviews, their length will be increased and their number significantly reduced. The journal’s aim is ‘to include only book reviews that vie with articles in terms of their impact and potential for setting the agenda’. I am delighted to join the editorial team as Reviews Editor to help secure this goal. MIND has already begun the transition to commissioning fewer and longer reviews, and readers will start to find the new reviews interspersed with those commissioned under the previous system. These new reviews will be closer in length to a critical study than a typical book review, giving reviewers more space in which to engage critically with, and build on, the books in question. Our hope is that the book reviews will be read as works of philosophy in their own right. We want them not only to discuss but to be discussed.