Editorial (english)

An academic journal is generally evaluated, regarding its performance, by committees that evaluate it based on criteria specific to institutions.In this case, publications like these are better evaluated the more they are linked to databases, national and foreign indexers, in terms of their periodicity and punctuality, in addition to the highly desirable internationalization.We do not deny that these are qualities to be evaluated according to the interest of measuring the impact of an academic and scientific vehicle with the bodies that need to establish qualifications and regulations for them.However, without neglecting these, we must declare ourselves to be primarily motivated by other issues that are equally or more important.An academic journal must fulfill its technical-scientific-informational role of disseminating the subject matter within its scope (in this case, philosophy).Thus, the purpose of disseminating recent production is in force, observing its quality, relevance, originality and, above all, providing space for the researcher who intends his work not to be just another point on his CV, but a valuable contribution to philosophy studies in Brazil and from Brazil.This means that it is up to journals like this one to disseminate the studies carried out here and abroad, ensuring that they have their place.Having accomplished this task, desirable and valued precisely because it adds to the efforts that increase the broth of philosophical culture in our country, we also open our doors to works by foreign researchers who, interested in a productive dialogue, want to pontificate on our pages.It is in the cultivation of this spirit that we house, in our numbers, articles by German, French, Belgian, Hungarian, Spanish, Mexican and Argentine philosophy researchers, in addition to having entire dossiers organized by Portuguese, Chilean and Italian partners.