Mario De Caro

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Mario De Caro is an Italian philosopher, currently associate professor of Moral Philosophy at Università di Roma Tre. He studies the philosophy of mind, the free-will controversy and naturalism.

Since 2000, he has also 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 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 translation La mente e la natura. Per un naturalismo liberalizzato, Fazi, Rome 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, forthcoming).

In Italian, he has written Dal punto di vista dell'interprete (Carocci, Rome, 1998), Il libero arbitrio (Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2004), Azione (Il Mulino, Bologna, forthcoming), and edited La logica della libertà (Meltemi, Rome, 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, Rome, 2007).

He is a member of the editorial boards of The European Journal of Analytic Philosophy and 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 publishers Harvard University Press, Routledge, Columbia University Press, Acumen Publisher, Laterza, Fazi, and Quodlibet, and for the journals Synthese, Philosophical Explorations and Sistemi Intelligenti.