«Fare» Scienza nuova per Giambattista Vico. Intervista a Fabrizio Lomonaco

Claudia Megale XX (2025), 1 Intervista On the occasion of the publication of his most recent book 1725. Per fare Scienza nuova (2025), Fabrizio Lomonaco in this dialogue elucidates some crucial issues concerning the years of preparation of the First New Science. They coincide with the drafting of the autobiography in which the memory of […]

Italian Hacking ed eredità. La ragione costruzionista da Giambattista Vico e Luciano Floridi

Giacomo Pezzano XIV (2019), 2 Saggio In this paper, I discuss the peculiarity of the Italian philosophy of the “impure reason” by highlighting the connection between the ideas of a “classic” Italian philosopher and the works of a contemporary Italian philosopher: Giambattista Vico and Luciano Floridi. With this aim, I present a defence of “constructionism” […]

La chiave e la bussola. Sul carattere della Scienza Nuova di Vico

Matteo Carducci XV (2020), 2 Saggio The following essay deals with the Giambattista Vico’s masterpiece. Many aspects of la Scienza Nuova (1744) are still subject to scholarly debate in the present day, including its character, for some scholars stressing its geometric structure while others are attracted to its poetic and imaginative features. Beginning with what […]