Luca Marchetti is currently a post-doctoral researcher within the ERC project PEA – The Philosophy of Experiential Artifacts (PI: Enrico Terrone) at the University of Genoa. He obtained his PhD from the University of Milan in 2022 with a thesis on the depiction of movement in static images. His research lies at the intersection of philosophy of mind and aesthetics, focusing on visual representations, the phenomenology and cognitive sciences of pictorial experience and virtual reality, and the appreciation of non-human animals’ minds. He has published in international journals such as Australasian Journal of Philosophy, The British Journal of Aesthetics, Philosophia, and Estetika.