Bruno Pinchard

Since 2021, he has continued his work in France at the Centre Jean Pépin (CNRS-ENS Ulm), and has developed his research along two institutional lines: the Société Dantesque de France, of which he is the founder, and Actualités de René Thom.

Bruno Pinchard contributes to the ongoing research on René Thom's work organised, since 2018, by Jean-Jacques Szczeciniarz, Jean Petitot, Isabel Marcos and Clément Morier: Actualités de René Thom. Bruno Pinchard, together with an artist, Thibaud Bernard-Helis, leads a working group on morphological neo-aristotelianism. Actualités de René Thom is sponsored by the IHSS of the University Paris VII Diderot and the New University of Lisbon (CICS. Nova).

In 2016, he was elected Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy for a five-year term.

Bruno Pinchard founded the Société Dantesque de France (SDdF) in January 2016 and was elected its president. In his founding letter, he invites several researchers and philosophers to reactivate the initiative of Professor Laurencin and Maurice Mignon from before the Second World War. Based on the new historical studies carried out on the image and work of Dante Alighieri, the SDdF intends to participate in the network of Dante societies throughout the world and work on the transmission of the poet's thought · . The management team and the scientific committee of the society bring together many eminent Italianists, philosophers, young doctoral students and several academics.

A member of the Grande Loge nationale française (GLNF), he is Worshipful Master of the Villard de Honnecourt research lodge . In April 2015, he gave a public lecture on the theme of "Femininity and initiation" in the premises of the obedience. In May 2015, he was a lecturer for the GLNF in the company of the historian Yves Hivert-Messeca for the Grand Orient de France during the "Lafayette meetings", the first meeting in history between the two obediences representing the two main currents of Freemasonry · . He was also co-editor of the Masonic journal Les Cahiers Villard de Honnecourt. On the occasion of the publication of his book Philosophie de l'initiation in 2016, he mentioned his membership of Freemasonry. In November 2016, during the Salon maçonnique du livre de Paris, this book received the literary prize in the philosophy and society category from the Institut maçonnique de France.

Moreover, Bruno Pinchard has given lectures abroad: at the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici in Naples, and at Italian research centers (Catania, Bologna, Trento). He has presented works on Descartes at the University of Chicago and on Rabelais at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has been invited to universities in Quebec (Laval and UM) and Romania. He has traveled twice to Israel to present his work on Rabelais and the Jewish tradition. He also works with the Université Libre de Belgique. In 2008, he taught at Japanese universities (Nihon, Waseda, Todai, Kwansei-Gakuin). He has regularly visited China, in particular Sun-Yat-sen University in Canton and Beijing Normal University (BNU) in Beijing.

Since 2003, Bruno Pinchard has held the Chair of Philosophy of the Renaissance and the Classical Age at the Université Jean-Moulin Lyon-III, where he is director of the École doctorale de philosophie, Rhône-Alpes region (2007-2016).

His study on the Fabbrica della mente, "architecture of the mind" (an expression borrowed from Tasso), published in 1992 under the title La Raison dédoublée, focuses historically on the Italian Renaissance, of which he makes the exemplary episode of a renewal of philosophy. Based on the examination of this pivotal period, between the Middle Ages and modern times, he posits that the architecture of the mind capable of carrying a civilization is built from the "splitting" of its principle.

After defending his dissertation in 1991, "La Fabbrica della mente, de Cajétan à Vico" under the direction of Pierre Magnard at the University of Paris-IV Sorbonne, he was elected professor at the University of Tours and at the Centre d'études supérieures de la Renaissance (chair of Renaissance philosophy).

In 1982, he defended a post-graduate thesis at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales under the direction of Louis Marin: L'Orphée moderne, rhétorique et métaphysique du "suono delle parole" dans l'humanisme littéraire et musical du Cinquecento.

After receiving his Agrégation in philosophy in 1978, he also became a student at a second École Normale Supérieure in Pisa (1979-1981), where his professor was Eugenio Garin.

After studying at the Lycée François Ier (Le Havre), then at Louis-le-Grand, he was admitted to the École Normale Supérieure (class of 1976).

Bruno Pinchard (born (1955-06-15)15 June 1955 in Le Havre) is a French writer and scholar, Doctor and Professor of philosophy.