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Mario De Caro


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Naturalism, Ethics, Free Will, Philosophy of Mind, Donald Davidson's and Hilary Putnam's philosophies

Biography

Mario De Caro teaches Moral Philosophy at Università Roma Tre. Since 2000 he has also been teaching at Tufts Summer School. He received his first degree and his Phd in Philosophy at University of Rome “La Sapienza”. He spent two years at MIT at a Visiting Graduate Student and one at Harvard University as a Fulbright Fellow.

He is the President of Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy. He has given lectures in the US, France, Switzerland, Germany, Spain and about 40 Italian universities. He has been a referee for Harvard University Press, Columbia University Press, Routledge, Acumen, Laterza, Il Mulino and Carocci (Italy), and for a number of journals. He has been a consultant for academic issues of the governments of Canada, Portugal and Belgium.

He has published articles in the cultural sections of the daily newspapers The Times, Il Sole 24 Ore and Il Manifesto.

In Italy he has published three volumes and about fifty scholarly articles, and edited seven anthologies. He also published articles in German and Romanian. His publications in English include:

Editor of Anthologies

  1. Philosophy in an Age of Science: Physics, Mathematics and Skepticism (collection of essays by Hilary Putnam), Harvard UP, Cambridge (MA), forthcoming (with D. Macarthur).
  2. Naturalism and Normativity, Columbia UP, New York 2010 (with D. Macarthur).
  3. Cartographies of the Mind: Philosophy and Psychology in Intersection Springer, Dordrecht 2006 (with M. Marraffa and F. Ferretti).
  4. Naturalism in Question, Harvard UP, Cambridge (MA) 2004/2008 (with D. Macarthur).
  5. Interpretations and Causes. New Perspectives on Donald Davidson’s Philosophy, Kluwer, Dordrecht 1999.

Articles

  1. "Davidson and Naturalism," in C. Amoretti - G. Preyer (eds.), Triangulation: From an Epistemological Point of View, forthcoming.
  2. "Beyond Scientism," in R. Calcaterra (ed.), Pragmatism and Analytic Philosophy, Rodopi, Amsterdam, 2011, pp. 21-34.
  3. "Emergence and Naturalism," in A. Corradini and T. O'Connor (eds.), Emergence in Science and Philosophy, Routledge, London, 2010, pp. 190-211.
  4. (With D. Macarthur), "Science, Naturalism, and the Problem of Normativity,", introduction to M. De Caro and D. Macarthur (eds.) Normativity and Naturalism, 2010 pp. 1-22.
  5. (With A. Voltolini), "Is Liberal Naturalism Possible?," in M. De Caro and D. Macarthur, Normativity and Naturalism, 2010, pp. 69-86.
  6. (With T. Pievani), "Bellarmino's Revenge," 37, 2010, pp. 1-22.
  7. (With A. Lavazza) ""Not So Fast. On Some Bold Neuroscientific Claims concerning Human Agency," Neuroethics, 3, 2010, pp. 23-41.
  8. "Varieties of Naturalism," in G. Bealer and R. Koons (eds.), The Anti-materialism Reader: Objections and Alternatives, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2009, pp. 365-374.
  9. "Skepticism and Naturalism," Iris, 2, 2009, pp. 161-170.
  10. (With S.L. White), "Mental Maps and the Varieties of Spatial Imagination," in P.A. Brandt and C. Carstensen (eds.), The Map is not the Territory, Esbjerg Kunstmuseum, Esbjerg (Denmark) 2008, pp. 162-166.
  11. "The Claims of Naturalism," in C. Penco, M. Beaney, and M. Vignolo (eds.), Explaining the Mental Naturalist and Non-Naturalist Approaches to Mental Acts and Processes, Cambridge Scholar Publishing, Newcastle 2007, 222-237.
  12. "Is Anomalous Monism a Suitable Theory of Freedom?," in F. Castellani and J. Quitterer (eds.), Agency and Causation in the Human Sciences, Mentis Verlag, Paderborn 2006, 141-152.
  13. "How To Deal with the Free Will Issue: The Roles of Conceptual Analysis and Empirical Science," in Marraffa, De Caro and Ferretti (eds.) 2006, 255-268.
  14. "Is Freedom Really a Mystery?", in De Caro and Macarthur (eds.) 2004/2008, 188-200.
  15. (With D. Macarthur), "Naturalism: Beyond a Philosophical Orthodoxy," in De Caro and Macarthur (eds.), 2004, 1-17.
  16. "Von Wright on the Mind-body Problem," in R. Egidi (ed.), In Search of a New Humanism: The Philosophy of George Henrik von Wright, Kluwer, Dordrecht 1999, 123-130.
  17. "Davidson in Focus," in De Caro (ed.), Interpretations and Causes, 1999, 1-29.
  18. "Galileo's Mathematical Platonism," in G. Czermak (ed.), Philosophy of Mathematics, Hoelder-Pichler-Tempsky, Wien 1992, p. 1-9.

Reviews

  1. Review of J. Ritchie, Understanding Naturalism, in International Journal of Philosophical Studies, forthcoming.
  2. Review of C. Norris, Rethinking the Cogito. Naturalism, Rationalism and the Venture of Thought, in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, forthcoming.
  3. Review of R. Rorty's "Summary and Comments," in R.A. Auxier and L.E. Hahn, The Philosophy of R. Rorty, in The Review of Metaphysics, forthcoming.
  4. "The Normative Dimension of Thought and Action:Alan Millar on Interpersonal Understanding," Philosophy of Mind Review (SWIF), 2007.
  5. Review of Mark Pickering (ed.), Science as Practice and Culture, in Archives Internationales d'Histoire Des Sciences, 1995, 169-171.
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