Between Bacon and Descartes: Vico’s Methodology and the Critique of Algorithmic Reductionism Tarp F. Bacono ir R. Descarteso: G. Vico metodologija ir algoritminio redukcionizmo kritika

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Adnanakan A., Nçşar G.

Filosofija, Sociologija, cilt.37, sa.1, ss.6-14, 2026 (AHCI, SSCI, Scopus) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 37 Sayı: 1
  • Basım Tarihi: 2026
  • Doi Numarası: 10.6001/fil-soc.2026.37.1.1
  • Dergi Adı: Filosofija, Sociologija
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, Central & Eastern European Academic Source (CEEAS), Philosopher's Index
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.6-14
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: algorithmic rationality, artificial intelli-gence, epistemology, human sciences, mondo civile, scientific reductionism, verum-factum, Vico
  • Kocaeli Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

This paper examines Giambattista Vico’s Scienza Nuova as an epistemological alterna-tive to the algorithmic rationality underlying artificial intelligence. Grounded in Vico’s verum-factum principle that humans can only truly know what they have created, it argues that data-driven models distort knowledge by detaching it from its historical and creative origins. Through a comparative analysis of Baconian empiricism and Car-tesian rationalism, the study demonstrates how Vico synthesises these traditions into a hermeneutic methodology centred on the mondo civile: the human-made world of meanings, laws and institutions. By uniting philologia (the domain of historical particu-lars) with philosophia (the pursuit of universal truths) within a dynamic interpretive circle, Vico establishes the autonomy of the human sciences against technological re-ductionism. His concepts of sensus communis (communal understanding) and ingenium (contextual judgment) reveal why algorithms can simulate but not comprehend mean-ing. The article concludes that Vico’s human-centred framework offers an indispensa-ble foundation for preserving interpretive understanding in the digital age.