Vico, contemporary philosopher

This study argues that the epistemological revolution of the twentieth century finds its most authoritative anticipation in Giambattista Vico’s New Science. Against the classical paradigm established by Galileo and Descartes, which grounded knowledge in certainty, objectivity, and the correspondence between intellect and reality, Vico proposed a radically different conception. He maintained that truth is inseparable from human making (verum factum): we can truly know only what we create.