Mario De Caro (born 1963) is an Italianphilosopher, professor ofmoral philosophy at theUniversity of Rome III in Italy. Since 2000, he has also been teaching atTufts University, where he is regularly a visiting professor. He is interested in moral philosophy, the free-will controversy,theory of action,history of science,Donald Davidson's andHilary Putnam's philosophies, and early modern philosophy. WithDavid Macarthur, he has defended a metaphilosohical view calledliberal naturalism.[1][2]
De Caro spent two years atMIT as a visiting graduate student and one as aFulbright Fellow atHarvard University.[3]
He is the editor ofInterpretations and Causes: New Perspectives on Donald Davidson’s Philosophy,[4]Naturalism in Question with David Macarthur,[5]Cartographies of the Mind: Philosophy and Psychology in Intersection,[6]Naturalism and Normativity (with David Macarthur),[7]Philosophy in an Age of Science: Physics, Mathematics and Skepticism (with David Macarthur), andIn Dialogue, two volumes of philosophical papers by Hilary Putnam byHarvard University Press.
He is associate editor ofThe Journal of the American Philosophical Association andAncient Philosophy Today and a member of the editorial boards ofThe European Journal of Analytic Philosophy.[8]He regularly contributes to the cultural pages ofIl Sole 24 Ore and has written for the cultural sections ofThe Times,La Repubblica, andIl Manifesto.[9] He is the vice president of the Consulta Nazionale di Filosofia (a grouping of Italian academic philosophers) and a former president of the Italian Society of Analytic Philosophy (2010–2012).[citation needed]
De Caro has given talks in numerous countries, at academic institutions such asOxford, Harvard,Princeton,Dartmouth,Boston College,Notre Dame,Saint Mary's College (Indiana),Case Western Reserve (Ohio),Colby College,University of Massachusetts at Amherst,Paris IV-Sorbonne,Warwick, andHeidelberg, among others, as well as at over sixty Italian universities.[citation needed]
The asteroid5329 Decaro is named in his honor.[10]
