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Mario De Caro Curriculum vitae A) Academic profile - Full professor in Moral Philosophy, Università Roma Tre - Teaching Visiting Professor, Tufts University (2000 to present) - Teaching Visiting Professor, Università Svizzera Italiana, Lugano (2014, 2018, and 2021) - Visiting Teaching Professor, LUISS, PhD in Political Science (2012 to 2019) - Visiting Teaching Professor, the School of Advanced Studies, University of Turin (2012 to present). - Teaching Visiting Professor, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University, Warsaw, Poland, 2015. - Teaching Visiting Professor (Erasmus Program) University of Warwick, 2014. - Teaching Visiting Professor (Erasmus Program) University of Madrid Autónoma, 2008. - Visiting Scholar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1994 and 1995). - Member of dissertation committees at Columbia University, Paris IV-Sorbonne, Universidad de Valencia, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Geneva, Nijmegen, Lugano, Genoa, LUISS, Roma “Tor Vergata”, Firenze, Macerata, Padova, Pavia, Sassari, Siena, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Milano San Raffaele, “La Sapienza” di Roma, Università di Siena, Università di Aquila, Statale di Pisa. - Invited lectures given in 18 countries, in academic institutions such as Harvard, Oxford, Princeton, École Normale Supérieure de Paris, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris IV-Sorbonne, Heidelberg, München, Genéve, Dartmouth College, University of Notre Dame, Boston College, University of Massachusetts, Indiana, University of New Hampshire, College of the Holy Cross, Brandeis, University of Toronto, CNRS Paris (Jean Nicod), University of London, University of Warwick, Hamburg, Bonn, Bamberg, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Bern, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Lisboa, Università Lateranense, Università Gregoriana, and in more than 50 Italian universities. - Gave the 2011 commencement speech at Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. B) Memberships - Vice president of the Consulta Nazionale di Filosofia (which groups all Italian academic philosophers) (2012 to present) - Member of the steering committee of the Italian Philosophical Association (2019 to present) - Member of the steering committee of the Italian Association for Moral Philosophy (2012 to 2019) President of the Italian Society of Analytic Philosophy, SIFA (2012-2014); member of that society 1992 to present); Vice president (2010-2014) - Member of the Committee on Academic Career Opportunities and Placement of the American Philosophical Association (APA) (2010-2013); member since 2009. - Member of the Steering Committee of the Roman chapter of the Italian Philosophical Association (2013 to present). - Member of the Steering Committee of the Italian Association for Cognitive Science (AISC) (2013-2016). - Member of the steering committee of the Italian Society of Neuroethics and Philosophy of Neurosciences (2013 to present). - Secretary of the Italian Association for Political Philosophy (2002-2004). - Consultant of the Italy Fulbright Commission (2010 to present). - Member of the committee for the evaluation of the Portuguese research programs in philosophy (Ministry of Science, Technology and Academic Education) (2011). - Peer reviewer for the “Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council”, Canada -Peer reviewer for the “Research Foundation Flanders” (FWO, Belgium). - Peer reviewer for the Czech Science Foundation. - Vice president of the Association “Romanae Disputationes” (which connect academics and high school teachers of philosophy) C) Editorial positions - Literary executor of Hilary Putnam. - Associate editor of the Journal of the American Philosophical Association (Cambridge University Press) and Ancient Philosophy Today (Edinburgh University). - Editor for Philosophy and law for the Italian Law Journal. - Member of the editorial boards/scientific committees of: Philosophical Inquiries, Linguistic and Philosophical Investigations, Review of Contemporary Philosophy, Análisis: revista de investigación filosófica, Analysis and Metaphysics, Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science, Phenomenology and Mind, Acta Philosophica, Rivista di estetica, Paradigmi, Filosofia e questioni pubbliche, Colloquium Philosophicum, Anthropologica, Dialogoi, Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia, Democrazia e sicurezza. - Editor of two book series in philosophy for the publisher Mimesis. - Member of the advisory committee for philosophy of the publisher Il Mulino. - Referee for the publishers Harvard University Press, Columbia University Press, Routledge, Palgrave, Springer, Bloomsbury, Acumen, Laterza, Carocci, Fazi, Meltermi (Italy), and for the journals Journal of Philosophy, Synthese, Philosophical Papers , Erkenntnis, Dialectica, Erkenntnis, Philosophical Explorations, Journal of Cognitive Science, Philosophia, Topoi, Journal of Mind and Society, Paradigmi, Filosofia e questioni pubbliche, Rivista di estetica, Giornale di metafisica, Rivista di filosofia, Politeia, Estetica: studi e ricerche, Teoria e critica della regolazione sociale e Sistemi intelligenti. D) Project organization 2019 to present: Principal Investigator of the PRIN project New challenges for applied ethics. The moral impact of scientific and technological advances (with the local unities of Roma Tre, Pisa, Padova, and Milano San Raffaele). 2015-2017: 2009-2011; 2013-2015: 2 national PRIN grants as Main Investigator of a research-unit. 2019-2021: Grant from Roma Tre University for a project of particular scientific interest (“Dinamiche sociali della paura”) 2000-2009: 3 national PRIN grants as a member of a research-unit. 2011-2013: Grant for a High-level Internationalization Project at Università Roma Tre (2011-2013). E) Research interests Moral philosophy; philosophy of mind; neuroethics; philosophical naturalism; the free-will problem; theory of action; history of early modern philosophy. F) Publications Mario De Caro has 1705 citations according to Google Scholar (accessed January 5, 2021) with an h-index of 18 and an i10-index of 28. He has authored 5 books in Italian (one is coming out for Harvard University Press), edited more than twenty collections of essays in English and Italian (for publishers such as Harvard, Columbia, Springer, Routledge, Einaudi, and Carocci), and published more than 150 scientific articles in Italian, English, German, Spanish, Polish, and Romanian. He has published in The Monist, Review of Metaphysics, Philosophical Review, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, The Journal of Value Inquiry, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Journal of Comparative Neurology, Social Epistemology Review, Neuroethics, Rivista di filosofia, Sistemi intelligenti, Quaestio, Rivista di storia della filosofia, Paradigmi, Iride, Rivista internazionale di filosofia e psicologia, Teoria. G) Awards and other honors - Fulbright Fellowship (1997/1998) - Marco Mondadori Fellowship (1998) - Asteroid 5329 has been named “Asteroid DeCaro” after him (2006). - Grant by the Templeton Foundation for a project related to the call “The Science and Philosophy of Self-Control” (2015-2017) (with M. Brass, University of Ghent). H) Main publications (i) Authored or coauthored volumes: Dal punto di vista dell’interprete (Carocci, 1998) Libero arbitrio (Laterza 20199); Mente e morale (Luiss UP 2016) (with M. Marraffa) Azione (Il Mulino 2018) Realtà (Bollati Boringhieri, forthcoming 2020) Le sfide dell’etica (Mondadori Università 2021) (with A. Niccoli e M.S. Vaccarezza) Etica ed economia (Il Mulino) (with R. De Bonis e F. Guala, forthcoming 2020) Naturalismo: storia di una visione del mondo (Il Mulino, forthcoming 2021) Film e morale (Mondadori, forthcoming 2021) (with E. Terrone) Liberal Naturalism (Harvard UP, forthcoming) (with D. Macarthur 2021) (ii) Main edited or coedited volumes: Interpretations and Causes. New Perspectives on Donald Davidson’s Philosophy (Springer 1999); Naturalism in Question (Harvard UP 2004/2008) (with D. Macarthur); Cartographies of the Mind. Philosophy and Psychology in Intersection (Springer 2007) (with M. Marraffa & F. Ferretti) Naturalism and Normativity (Columbia UP 2010); Philosophy in an Age of Science, collection of essays by H. Putnam (Harvard UP 2012) (with D. Macarthur); Editor of three issues of the journal The Monist (2015, 2018, and 2020) Naturalism, Realism, and Normativity, collection of essays by H. Putnam (Harvard UP 2016) Handbook to Liberal Naturalism (Routledge, forthcoming 2021) (with D. Macarthur) In Dialogue, collection of essays by H. Putnam (Harvard UP, forthcoming 2021) (with D. Macarthur) Practical wisdom. Philosophical and Phsychological Perspectives (Routledge, London) (with M.S. Vaccarezza) (iii) Main recent articles: “Lynne Baker's Near Naturalism," in L.R.G. Oliveira & K.J. Corcoran (eds.), Commonsense Metaphysics. Essays in Honor of Lynne Rudder Baker, Routledge, New York/London 2020, 292-305. “Hilary Putnam of free will”, in J. Conant – S. Chakraborty (eds.), Engaging Putnam, de Gruyter, Berlin, forthcoming "Common-sense and Naturalism", in P. Giladi (ed.), Responses to Naturalism: Critical Perspectives from Idealism and Pragmatism, Routledge, London 2020. "Machiavelli's Lucretian view of free will," in D. Zucca (ed.), Lucretius: Poet and Philosopher, De Gruyter, Berlin 2020, 201-217. “Putnam's Liberal Naturalism," in M. Frauchige (ed.), Themes from Putnam, Ontos Verlag, forthcoming. "Actus non facit reum nisi mens sit rea: The concept of guilt in the age of cognitive science," in A. D'Aloia (ed.), Neuroscience and Law, Springer, Dordrecht 2020, 69-79. "Morality and Interpretation: The Principle of Phronetic Charity" (with M.S. Vaccarezza), Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, forthcoming. “Self-Control, Agency, and the Placebo Brain Stimulation. Psychological and Philosophical Perspectives” (with M. Brass et al.), in A. Mele (ed.), Surrounding Self-Control, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2020, 189-202. “Hilary Putnam on Perspectivism and Naturalism”, in A.-M Cretu – M. Massimi (eds.), Knowledge from a Human Point of View, Springer, Dordrecht, 2019, pp. 57-70. “The Indispensability of the Manifest Image”, Philosophy and Social Criticism,45, 2019, pp. 1-11. "Phronesis as Ethical Expertise: Naturalism of Second Nature and the Unity of Virtue" (with M.S. Vaccarezza), The Journal of Value Inquiry, 52, 2019, pp. 287-305. “The Historical Roots of the Fracture between Subjective and Objective Realism”, Quaestio, 2018, pp. 343-351. “Review of The Cambridge Companion to Philosophical Methodology”, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2018; “Social Justice, individualism, and cooperation. Integrating political philosophy and cognitive sciences”, Teoria 2018; "On Galileo's Platonism, again," in J. Agassi, D. Drozdova D. Pisano, (eds.), Hypotheses and Perspectives within History and Philosophy of Science. Hommage to Alexandre Koyré 1964-2014, Springer, Dordrecht, 2018, pp. 84-104. Debunking the Pyramidal Mind: A Plea for Sinergy between Reason and Emotion," Journal of Comparative Neurology, 524 (8), June 2016, pp. 1695-1698 "Utilitarianism and Retributivism in Cesare Beccaria," The Italian Law Journal, 2016, pp, 1-12. “Debunking the Pyramidal Mind: A Plea for Sinergy between Reason and Emotion”, Journal of Comparative Neurology, 2015; "Review of L.R. Baker, Naturalism and the first-person perspective," Philosophical Review, 124, 1, 2015, pp. 156-158. “Realism, Common Sense, and Science", The Monist, 2015, pp. 197-214. “Realism, Common Sense, and Science”, The Monist, 2015; Recent lectures and talks “Naturalism and Pluralism”, Keynote address at the annual conference of the Metaphysical Society of America, March 20, 2020 (postponed to 2021) “Machiavelli’s Naturalism”, Conference of the American Philosophical Association (Eastern division), Philadelphia, January 9, 2020 “Responsibility, Punishment, and Scapegoating,”, Interdisciplinary workshop on moral Responsibility, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, December 17, 2019. “Machiavelli’s Naturalism”, conference “Self-Knowledge and Judgment in Early Modern Philosophy”, University of Warwick, September 27, 2019. “Machiavelli on Free Will”, Renassaince Society of America, Toronto, March 18, 2019. “Putnam’s Philosophies”, conference on “Hilary Putnam’s Liberal Naturalism”, Boston University, February 2019. “On Lynne Baker’s New Naturalism”, Memorial conference at the APA Eastern Convention, January 2019. “A Threat to Traits: Ethical Expertise and the Situationist Challenge”, Conference on “Virtues: Local or Universal?”, Oriel College, Oxford, January 2019 “Beyond the Hierarchical View of the Mind”, conference on “Passions and the Self: An Interdisciplinary Approach”, Oxford University 2018; “Liberal naturalism, supernaturalism, and antinaturalism”, Conference: “Naturalism and Supernaturalism: Beyond the divide”, Heythrop College, University of London 2017. “Liberal naturalism and liberalized realism”, conference on “Liberal Naturalism”. Invited speaker, Deakin University, Melbourne 2017; “Mechanized Agency”, conference on Applied Ethics and New Technologies, University of Hamburg 2017; “Scientific Challenges to the Notion of Responsibility”, conference “Neurosciences and Law”, University of Padua 2017; “Free Will after van Inwagen”, conference “Quo vadis, metaphysics?”, University of Warsaw 2017. "The View from Outside: On a Distinctively Cinematic Achievement" (with E. Terrone), Philosophy and Social Criticism, 42, 2016, pp. 154-170. Putnam’s Legacy and Influence into the Future”, conference “A Celebration of the Life and Work of Hilary Putnam”, Harvard University, 2016 “Galileo’s Platonism”, Harvard University, Dept. of Classics, Harvard University, 2016 “Machiavelli’s Free Will”, conference “The Italian Roots of Modernity: Machiavelli and Galileo”, Harvard University, 2016 “Free Will and neuroscience”, invited lecture at Notre Dame University, 2016. “The experiments of the Libet tradition, free will, and consciousness”, invited lecture, Dept. of Neuroscience, Ghent 2016 List of main publications  A) Profilo accademico - Professore di prima di fascia di Filosofia morale, Università Roma Tre - Teaching Visiting Professor, Tufts University (2000 sino ad oggi) - Professore visitatore e docente, Università Svizzera Italiana, Lugano (2014, 2018 e 2021) - Professore visitatore e docente, LUISS, Dottorato in scienza politica (2012 - 2019) - Professore visitatore e docente, Scuola di studi Avanzati, Università di Torino (2012 sino a oggi). - Teaching Visiting Professor, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University, Warsaw, Poland (2015). - Teaching Visiting Professor (Erasmus Program) University of Warwick (2014). - Teaching Visiting Professor (Erasmus Program) Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (2008). - Visiting Scholar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1994 e 1995). - Membro di comitati per la discussione di dissertazioni dottorali presso Columbia University, Paris IV-Sorbonne, Universidad de Valencia, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Geneva, Nijmegen, Lugano, Genoa, LUISS, Roma “Tor Vergata”, Firenze, Macerata, Padova, Pavia, Sassari, Siena, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Milano San Raffaele, “La Sapienza” di Roma, Università di Siena, Università di Aquila, Statale di Pisa. - Invitato a dare conferenze e partecipare a convegni in 18 nazioni, in istituzioni accademiche che includono Harvard, Oxford, Princeton, École Normale Supérieure de Paris, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris IV-Sorbonne, Heidelberg, München, Genéve, Dartmouth College, University of Notre Dame, Boston College, University of Massachusetts, Indiana, University of New Hampshire, College of the Holy Cross, Brandeis, University of Toronto, CNRS Paris (Jean Nicod), University of London, University of Warwick, Hamburg, Bonn, Bamberg, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Bern, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Lisboa, Università Lateranense, Università Gregoriana, and in more than 50 Italian universities. - Nel 2011 ha dato la prolusione iniziale presso la Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. B) Partecipazione a società scientifiche - Vicepresidente della Consulta Nazionale di Filosofia (2012 to present) - Membro del consiglio direttivo della Società Filosofica Italiana (2019 to present) - Membro del consiglio direttivo della Società Italiana di Filosofia Morale (2012 - 2019) - Presidente della Società Italiana della Società di Filosofia Analitica (2012-2014); membro di detta società dal 1992 to present); Vicepresidente (2010-2014) - Membro del Committee on Academic Career Opportunities and Placement della American Philosophical Association (APA) (2010-2013); membro di quella associazione dal 2009. - Membro del consiglio direttivo della sezione romana della Società Filosofica Italiana (2013 to present). - Membro del consiglio direttivo della Associazione Italiana di Scienze cCgnitive (AISC) (2013-2016). - Membro del consiglio direttivo della Società Italiana di Neuroetica e di Filosofia delle Neuroscienze (dal 2013 ad oggi). - Segretario e membro del direttivo della Società Italiana di Filosofia Politica (2002-2004). - Consulente della Italian Fulbright Commission (dal 2010 a oggi). - Membro della commissione valutatrice del governo portoghese per i programmi di ricerca in filosofia (Ministry of Science, Technology and Academic Education) (2011). - Referee per il “Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council”, Canada -Referee per la “Research Foundation Flanders” (FWO, Belgium). - Referee per la Czech Science Foundation. - Vicepresidente dell’associazione “Romanae Disputationes” (che connette con i docent di filosofia accademici e delle scuole superiori) C) Posizioni editoriali - Esecutore letterario di Hilary Putnam. - Associate editor del Journal of the American Philosophical Association (Cambridge University Press) e di Ancient Philosophy Today (Edinburgh University). - Editor per Filosofia e legge for the Italian Law Journal. - Membro dei comitati scientifici ed editoriali di: Philosophical Inquiries, Linguistic and Philosophical Investigations, Review of Contemporary Philosophy, Análisis: revista de investigación filosófica, Analysis and Metaphysics, Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science, Phenomenology and Mind, Acta Philosophica, Rivista di estetica, Paradigmi, Filosofia e questioni pubbliche, Colloquium Philosophicum, Anthropologica, Dialogoi, Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia, Democrazia e sicurezza. - Editor di due collane filosofiche per l’editore Mimesis. - Membro del Gruppo di lettura di Filosofia per l’editore Il Mulino. - Referee gli editori: Harvard University Press, Columbia University Press, Routledge, Palgrave, Springer, Bloomsbury, Acumen, Laterza, Carocci, Fazi, Meltermi (Italy), and for the journals Journal of Philosophy, Synthese, Philosophical Papers , Erkenntnis, Dialectica, Erkenntnis, Philosophical Explorations, Journal of Cognitive Science, Philosophia, Topoi, Journal of Mind and Society, Paradigmi, Filosofia e questioni pubbliche, Rivista di estetica, Giornale di metafisica, Rivista di filosofia, Politeia, Estetica: studi e ricerche, Teoria e critica della regolazione sociale e Sistemi intelligenti. D) Coordinamento di progetti Dal 2019 ad oggi: Principal Investigator del Progetto finanziato PRIN “New challenges for applied ethics. The moral impact of scientific and technological advances” (comprendente le unità locali di Roma Tre, Pisa, Padova e Milano San Raffaele). 2009-2011; 2013-2015; 2015-2017: Coordinatore locale di unità di progetti di ricerca PRIN finanziati. 2019-2021: Finanziamento dell’Università Roma Tre University per un progetto di particolare interesse scientifico (“Dinamiche sociali della paura”) 2016-2018: Finanziamento a progetto da parte della Templeton Foundation (con Marcel Brass, Ghent) 2000-2009: Tre finanziamenti PRIN come membro di unità locale. 2011-2013: Finanziamento per un Progetto internazionale di alto livello da parte dell’Università Roma Tre (2011-2013). E) Interessi di ricerca Moral philosophy; philosophy of mind; neuroethics; philosophical naturalism; the free-will problem; theory of action; history of early modern philosophy. Filosofia morale; filosofia della mente; neuroetica; naturalismo filosofico; la questione del libero arbitrio; teoria dell’azione; storia della filosofia della prima età moderna. F) Pubblicazioni Mario De Caro ha 1076 citazioni secondo Google Scholar (accessed December 18, 2020) con un h-index di 18 e un i10-index di 28. E’ autore di 5 volumi monografici in italiano (e di uno in inglese in preparazione per Harvard University Press), ha curato più di venti raccolte di saggi in inglese in italiano (per editori che includono Harvard, Columbia, Springer, Routledge, Einaudi, and Carocci) e pubblicato più di 150 articoli scientifici in italiano, inglese, tedesco, spagnolo, polacco e rumeno. Ha pubblicato in The Monist, Review of Metaphysics, Philosophical Review, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, The Journal of Value Inquiry, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Journal of Comparative Neurology, Social Epistemology Review, Neuroethics, Rivista di filosofia, Sistemi intelligenti, Quaestio, Rivista di storia della filosofia, Paradigmi, Iride, Rivista internazionale di filosofia e psicologia, Teoria. G) Training di giovani studiosi È stato tutur dei dottorandi Matteo Grasso (poi post-doc Oxford e alla University of Wisconsin) e Sofia Bonicalzi (che fu visiting graduate student a Cornell, poi post-doc alla University of London e ora è all’Università di Monaco). Nel contesto del progetto Templeton da lui coordinato, ha seguito il lavoro dell’assegnista Rossella Guerrini (presentando un paper congiunto al convegno finale di fine progetto alla University of Florida, a cui seguirà un articolo per un volume di Oxford UP). È stato poi tutor esterno delle tesi di laurea triennale e specialistica di Federica Della Grotta, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, che è poi diventata dottoranda all’University of Cambridge). È stato tutore di dottorato di altri quattro studenti presso l’Università di Roma tre, ha scritto molte lettere di raccomandazione per studenti sia a Roma Tre sia a Tufts University e ha seguito più di cento tesi di laurea triennale e specialistica. H) Premi e altre onorificenze - Fulbright Fellowship (1997/1998) - Marco Mondadori Fellowship (1998) - L’asteroide 5329 è stato chiamato “Asteroid DeCaro” in suo onore (2006). - Finanziamento della Templeton Foundation per il progetto “The Science and Philosophy of Self-Control” (2015-2017) (con Marcell Brass, Università di Ghent).