Mario De Caro

Mario De Caro is an Italian philosopher (b. 1963), who teaches Moral Philosophy at Università Roma Tre. Since 2000, he has also been teaching at Tufts University. He is interested in moral philosophy, the free-will controversy, theory of action, history of science, and Donald Davidson's and Hilary Putnam's philosophies. With David Macarthur he has defended a metaphilosohical view called liberal naturalism, which is now widely discussed (for a sympathetic presentation of this view see [1]; for a critical one see [2]).

He spent two years at Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a Visiting Graduate Student and one as a Fulbright Fellow at Harvard University. [3]

He is the editor of Interpretations and Causes: New Perspectives on Donald Davidson’s Philosophy (Kluwer, 1999), Naturalism in Question (with David Macarthur, Harvard University Press, 2004; paperback edition 2008); Cartographies of the Mind. Philosophy and Psychology in Intersection (with M. Marraffa and F. Ferretti, Springer, 2006), Naturalism and Normativity (with David Macarthur, Columbia University Press, 2010), and Philosophy in an Age of Science: Physics, Mathematics and Skepticism, a volume of philosophical papers by Hilary Putnam (with David Macarthur), Harvard University Press, forthcoming.

In Italian, he has written Dal punto di vista dell'interprete (Carocci, 1998), Il libero arbitrio (Laterza, 2004), Azione (Il Mulino, 2008), and edited La logica della libertà (Meltemi, 2002), Normatività, Fatti, Valori (with M. Dell’Utri and R. Egidi, Quodlibet, 2003), Scetticismo. Storia di una vicenda filosofica (with E. Spinelli, Carocci, 2007), Siamo davvero liberi? Le neuroscienze e il mistero del libero arbitrio (with A. Lavazza and G. Sartori, Codice, 2010), and La filosofia analitica e le altre tradizioni (with S. Poggi, Carocci, 2011).

He is a member of the editorial boards of The European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, Iris, and Filosofia e questioni pubbliche, of the Advisory Panels of Linguistic and Philosophical Investigations, Review of Contemporary Philosophy and Analysis and Metaphysics. He is a consultant of the Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Ensino Superior (Portugal) [4]. He has written for the cultural sections of The Times, Il Sole 24 Ore, La Repubblica, and Il Manifesto. [5] He is a member of the Committee on Academic Career Opportunities and Placement of the American Philosophical Association, and the President of the Italian Society of Analytic Philosophy (2010–2012).

The asteroid 5329 Decaro is named in his honor. [6]

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