Research project : "Vico, dogmatic anthropology and cognitive sciences: towards a new “Scienza Nuova”?" The research program into dogmatic anthropology aims at defining, in an aesthetic and anthropological sense, the notion of man facing the emergence of the field of neurosciences and robotics: in order to show how, after a ‘pictorial turn’ that follow a ‘linguistic turn’ in contemporary philosophy and moving toward an ‘affective turn’, it would be possible to recuperate the dogmatic and anthropological nature of the aesthetic in society, moving from the theory of law and a new reading of Vico’s “Scienza Nuova”. Starting from the challenges of contemporary cognitive science and robotics one could pursue the idea (coming from Vico’s priciple of verum factum convertuntur, applied however in a new domain) that man can know the robot from inside and totally because he has designed and built it in advance. This research perspective focuses the theme of a redefinition of the current social science methodology - guilty of removing anthropology from the scientific knowledge recognized today - moving toward a new ‘Scienza Nuova’ from an aesthetic history of human image as philosophical foundations of law in the society of the spectacle: from Roman Imperator to Medieval Pope; from Hobbesian Leviathan to dictator’s political bodies and capitalism’s media and marketing bodies to current scientistic brain’s neuroimage and robotic bodies. Robotics and neurosciences seem to have aesthetic and dogmatic anthropological features that must be critically analyzed.

Project research : "Interfaith relations in the pre-modern Islamic world through legal consultations (fatwas)" From its establishment in the 15th century up to today, the Muslim world has always counted a large number of non-Muslims among its population. The political dominance of Islam did not prevent other religions from remaining under Muslim suzerainty in most regions, including those that were conquered by force. As the numerical majority in some cities and provinces, these communities played an important role in the economic and cultural expansion of the Islamic empire. Relations between the majority Muslim society and religious minorities in the pre-modern age are increasingly interesting for researchers working on the history of the Near East and the Maghreb. But this research comes up against a significant obstacle: the rarity of archival documents. To overcome this difficulty, we must expand the field of investigation by appealing to other sources. Among the documents that can help the historian’s quest for information about this period, there are legal consultations (fatwas) issued by Mâlikite jurists from North Africa and al Andalus. Rich in data on the economic and social life of the Muslim West, the fatwas are also quite interesting for the study of interfaith relations. This project intends to translate and analyze a corpus of numerous legal consultations concerning non-Muslims (primarily Jews and Christians) living in Muslim territory.

Conférence de Pierre Musso, philosophe et Fellow associé à l’Institut d’Études Avancées (IEA) de Nantes à l’occasion de la sortie de son dernier ouvrage "La Religion industrielle. Monastère, manufacture, usine. Une généalogie de l’entreprise"dans la collection Poids et Mesures du Monde chez Fayard.

Dans le cadre du cycle de conférence de la fondation Institut d'Etudes Avancées de Nantes organisé au Lieu Unique à Nantes en partenariat avec l'Agence Nationale de la Recherche, Frédéric Lordon, sociologue et économiste, directeur de recherche au CNRS, Centre de Sociologie Européenne, a présenté " Les affects de la politique ", introduit par Pierre Musso, Philosophe et membre associé de l'Institut d'Etudes Avancées de Nantes.

Colloque " Modèles mathématiques et prévisions : leurs usages et abus dans les sciences humaines et les sciences de la nature " Dans le cadre du cycle de conférence de la fondation Institut d'Etudes Avancées de Nantes et du colloque organisé par Giuseppe Longo, épistémologue, mathématicien, membre associé de l'IEA de Nantes 2014/2017, nous propose une intervention de Nicolas Bouleau, mathématicien, Ecole des Ponts Paris-tech, sur le thème : " Dieu avait-il prévu la biologie de synthèse ? Combinatoire, providence, interprétation ".

Lampedusa is one of the small Italian Pelagie islands in Sicily. An African land bridge in Italian “territory”, drifting in the Mediterranean, it reflects all the contradictions and paradoxes of symbolic imagery and European political practice. On 3rd October 2013, when a 20 metre-long fishing boat in Libya full of immigrants from various African countries set sail from Misurata and sank about half a mile from its white sand beaches, the island became the international symbol of a human tragedy which, for decades, has bloodied all the “borders” of the continent. It is also becoming the symbol of a political crisis with potentially devastating consequences for the dream of a united and transnational Europe.