Mario De Caro
{{Short description|Italian philosopher (born 1963)}}
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Mario De Caro (born 1963) is an Italian philosopher, professor of moral philosophy at the University of Rome III in Italy. Since 2000, he has also been teaching at Tufts 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 and Hilary Putnam's philosophies, and early modern philosophy. With David Macarthur, he has defended a metaphilosohical view called liberal naturalism.{{cite book|author=Mario De Caro|author2=David Macarthur|title=Sympathetic review of Liberal Naturalism|publisher=Columbia University Press|year=2010|isbn=978-0-2311-3467-5}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_m6HhdbyOqIC&pg=PA8|author=Stewart Goetz|author2=Charles Taliaferro|title=Critical review of Liberal Naturalism|date=29 April 2008|page=8|isbn=9780802807687}}
Career
De Caro spent two years at MIT as a visiting graduate student and one as a Fulbright Fellow at Harvard University.{{cite web|url=https://as.tufts.edu/philosophy/people/faculty/deCaro|title=Mario De Caro|accessdate=2 April 2019}}
He is the editor of Interpretations and Causes: New Perspectives on Donald Davidson’s Philosophy,{{cite book|title=Interpretations and Causes: New Perspectives on Donald Davidson's Philosophy|publisher=Kluwer|year=1999|isbn=978-90-481-5283-4}} Naturalism in Question with David Macarthur,{{cite book|title=Naturalism in Question|publisher=Harvard University Press|year=2008|origyear=2004|isbn=978-0-6740-3041-1}} Cartographies of the Mind: Philosophy and Psychology in Intersection,{{cite book|editor=Marraffa, Massimo|editor2=De Caro, Mario|editor3=Ferretti, Francesco|title=Cartographies of the Mind. Philosophy and Psychology in Intersection|publisher=Springer|year=2007|isbn=978-1-4020-5443-3}} Naturalism and Normativity (with David Macarthur),{{cite book|title=Naturalism and Normativity|author=Mario De Caro|author2=David Macarthur|publisher=Columbia University Press|year=2010|isbn=978-0-2311-3466-8}} Philosophy in an Age of Science: Physics, Mathematics and Skepticism (with David Macarthur), and In Dialogue, two volumes of philosophical papers by Hilary Putnam by Harvard University Press.
He is associate editor of The Journal of the American Philosophical Association and Ancient Philosophy Today and a member of the editorial boards of The European Journal of Analytic Philosophy.[https://www.ffri.hr/phil/casopis/editorial.html The European Journal of Analytic Philosophy]
He regularly contributes to the cultural pages of Il Sole 24 Ore and has written for the cultural sections of The Times, La Repubblica, and Il Manifesto.{{cite web|url=http://host.uniroma3.it/docenti/decaro/|title=Mario De Caro|language=it|accessdate=2 April 2019}} 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|date=October 2022}}
De Caro has given talks in numerous countries, at academic institutions such as Oxford, 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, and Heidelberg, among others, as well as at over sixty Italian universities.{{citation needed|date=October 2022}}
The asteroid 5329 Decaro is named in his honor.[http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=5329 NASA entry for 5329]
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