Research interests

• History and Epistemology of Social Sciences;
• Phenomenological Philosophy and Structuralism;
• Cultural and Social Anthropology.

Projects

• "The dichotomy between nature and culture in contemporary anthropological thinking and its relevance for philosophy", post-doc research project, Faculty of Science and Technology, New University of Lisbon, (FCT/MCTES, SFRH/BPD/46337/2008), 2009-....

Publications (selection)

1. Davide Scarso, “Dialéctica e ultrabolchevismo: a ruptura entre Merleau-Ponty e Sartre”, in Actas das Jornadas de Jovens Investigadores de Filosofia - Primeiras Jornadas Internacionais, (Évora: Grupo Krisis, 2010), Vol. 1, pp. 131-150.
2. Davide Scarso, “Dialettica e ultraboscevismo: note su una frattura filosofica (1955)”, Bollettino Studi Sartriani, V (2009), 77-96.
3. Davide Scarso, “« En même temps la même et tout autre chose » : Merleau-Ponty reader of Lévi-Strauss”, Chiasmi International, 11 (2009), 99-110.
4. Davide Scarso, “Entre théorie du sensible et Logos du monde naturel. Lévi-Strauss et Merleau-Ponty”, Figures de la psychanalyse, 17 (2009), 57-73.
5. Davide Scarso, “Claude Lévi-Strauss e Maurice Merleau-Ponty entre estruturalismo e fenomenologia”, Tempo Brasileiro, 175 (2008), 63-77.
6. Davide Scarso, “Postfazione” in M. Merleau-Ponty, Le avventure della dialettica, (Milano: Mimesis, 2008), 231-251.
7. Davide Scarso, “Civilisation”, “Différence”, “Relation”, “Sciences sociales”, “Signe” in Jean-Philippe Cazier (dir.), Abécédaire de Claude Lévi-Strauss, (Mons - Paris: Les Éditions Sils Maria - Les Éditions Vrin, coédition, 2008), 21-23, 35-37, 134-136, 156-158, 161-163.
8. Davide Scarso, “Steven Holl: Architettura e fenomenologia”, Chiasmi International, 9 (2007), 15-16. Later in F. Filippuzzi e L. Taddio (eds.), Costruire Abitare Pensare, (Milano: Mimesis, 2010), 193-195.
9. Davide Scarso, “Inerenza ed omologia: l’animalità in Merleau-Ponty e Lévi-Strauss”, Chiasmi International, 8 (2006), 317-338.
10. Davide Scarso, “Fórmulas e arquétipos, Aby Warburg e Carl G. Jung”, in Olga Pombo, António Guerreiro, António Franco Alexandre (eds.), Enciclopédia e Hypertexto, (Lisboa: Edições Duarte Reis, 2006), 537-553.

Scientific Societies and other institutions

• Journal “Chiasmi International. Publication trilingue autour de la pensée de Merleau-Ponty” (Mimesis – Vrin): Member of the editorial committee since 2001.