Read a recent interview with Prof. De Caro.
Since 1994, Mario De Caro has been flying incessantly between his favorite towns, Rome and Boston. In Rome, he is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Roma Tre University (where he sits on the Board of Directors). In Boston he has been a Visiting Scholar at MIT (1994 and 1995) and a Fulbright Fellow at Harvard University (1997-1998), before he began teaching part of the year at Tufts in 2000.
De Caro reads and writes about the philosophy of mind, the free-will controversy, and naturalism, among other things. He is also interested in the history of culture, in old movies, and in classical music. His cousin Gus owns the Toscanini's ice cream shop chain, where Mario has been found many an afternoon.
He has written several books in Italian, and numerous articles in English and in Italian. He has also been the editor of Interpretations and Causes: New Perspectives on Donald Davidson's Philosophy (Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1999), and the coeditor, with David Macarthur, of Naturalism in Question (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2004) and, with Massimo Marraffa and Francesco Ferretti, of Cartographies of the Mind: Philosophy and Psychology in Intersection (Kluwer, Dordrecht, 2006). With Macarthur, he is now working on a new anthology, Normativity and Nature, forthcoming from Columbia University Press.
He is a member of the Editorial Board of The European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, and a referee for several journals and publishers. In Italy he regularly contributes to the cultural section of the national newspaper Il Manifesto. The asteroid 5329 Decaro (discovered in 1989) is named in his honor.
