Mario De Caro

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Mario De Caro is an Associate Professor of Moral Philosophy at Università Roma Tre. He is a philosopher who studies the philosophy of mind, the free-will controversy and naturalism.

Since 2000, he has been teaching at Tufts University. In 1994 and 1995 he was a Visiting Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and, in 1997-1998, a Fulbright Fellow at Harvard University.

He is the editor of numerous books including Interpretations and Causes: New Perspectives on Donald Davidson’s Philosophy (Kluwer, Dordrecht 1999), Naturalism in Question (with David Macarthur, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA 2004; Italian transl. La mente e la natura, Fazi, Roma 2005), Cartographies of the Mind. Philosophy and Psychology in Intersection (with M. Marraffa and F. Ferretti, Springer, Dordrecht 2006), Normativity and Nature (with David Macarthur, Columbia University Press, New York City, forthcoming).

In Italian, he has written Dal punto di vista dell'interprete (Carocci, Roma 1998), Il libero arbitrio (Laterza, Roma-Bari 2004), Azione (Il Mulino, Bologna, forthcoming) and edited La logica della libertà (Meltemi, Roma 2002), Normatività, Fatti, Valori (with M. Dell’Utri and R. Egidi, Quodlibet, Macerata 2003) and Scetticismo. Storia di una vicenda filosofica (with E. Spinelli, Carocci, Roma 2007).

He is a member of the editorial boards of The European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, Filosofia e questioni pubbliche, the website Rescogitans, the e-publisher Polimetrica (series "Philosophy of Mind and Language") and of the Advisory Panels of Linguistic and Philosophical Investigations, Review of Contemporary Philosophy and Analysis and Metaphysics. He has been a referee for the journals Philosophical Explorations, Sistemi Intelligenti and for the publishers Columbia University Press, Acumen Publisher, Laterza, Fazi, and Quodlibet.