Mario De Caro (born 1963) is an Italian

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, professor of

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at the University of Rome III in Italy. Since 2000, he has also been teaching at

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, where he is regularly a visiting professor. He is interested in moral philosophy, the free-will controversy, theory of action,

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, Donald Davidson's and

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's philosophies, and early modern philosophy. With

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, he has defended a metaphilosohical view called

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Career

De Caro spent two years at

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as a visiting graduate student and one as a

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Fellow at

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. He is the editor of ''Interpretations and Causes: New Perspectives on Donald Davidson’s Philosophy'', ''Naturalism in Question'' with David Macarthur, ''Cartographies of the Mind: Philosophy and Psychology in Intersection'', ''Naturalism and Normativity'' (with David Macarthur), ''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

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. 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''. He regularly contributes to the cultural pages of ''

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'' and has written for the cultural sections of ''

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'', ''

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'', and '' Il Manifesto''. 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). De Caro has given talks in numerous countries, at academic institutions such as

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, Harvard,

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, Dartmouth,

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, Notre Dame, Saint Mary's College (Indiana),

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(Ohio),

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, Paris IV-Sorbonne,

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, and

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, among others, as well as at over sixty Italian universities. The asteroid 5329 Decaro is named in his honor.NASA entry for 5329
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