Thora Ilin Bayer is RosaMary Foundation Professor of Liberal Arts and Professor of Philosophy at Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans. She is the author of Cassirer's Metaphysics of Symbolic Forms: A Philosophical Commentary and co-editor of Giambattista Vico: Keys to the New Science.Donald Phillip Verene is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Metaphysics and Moral Philosophy at Emory University and a fellow of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. His many books include Philosophy and the Return to Self-Knowledge and Vico's New Science: A Philosophical Commentary.