[2] However, the decisive encounters were made outside the schools: those of the composer Georges Migot and the mathematician René Thom[4] in France, as well as the musicologist Annibale Gianuario in Italy.

[9] 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).

[11] 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.

[12] 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.

[13] The thought of the Renaissance was split between scholasticism and modernity (through the question of analogy),[14] between paganism and Christianity (with the return of Platonism), between land and sea (with the great discoveries).

[17] Pinchard manages to contain the destructive risk by finding in humanist myths a measure capable of imposing itself on the dividing power of intelligence.

[19] In the face of oppositions that now seem irreconcilable between profane and sacred, tradition and modernity, progress and decadence or globalisation and territorialisation, we find at work according to Pinchard federating myths, which are the foundations of a human community.

[22][23] By the same means he defends ontology against the anti-substantialist bias of contemporary philosophy, in particular the phenomenological current, any substance becoming for him a mythical center, which he names after René Thom, a "well of potential ".

[28] To sum up, according to Pinchard, splitting is the oldest mark of humanity, which knows itself to be exposed to becoming and death, that of a knowledge confronted with its share of ignorance and the duality of its engendering.

[30] Thus, according to Bruno Pinchard, splitting is established as a method to be implemented in the field of human sciences as in any effort to interpret the testimonies of the past.

[33][34] The management team and the scientific committee of the society bring together many eminent Italianists, philosophers, young doctoral students and several academics.