Abstract

In the last decade or so there has been a rediscovery of Giambattista Vico’s work and its importance to both philosophy and psychology. The publication of these two books by Marcel Danesi, Professor of Semiotics and Italian at the University of Toronto, and Director of the Program in Semiotics, represents a re-entering of Giambattista Vico’s works into the social and behavioral sciences and into cognitive science proper. These two books constitute no less than a Vichian cognitive science project