Mario De Caro (born 1963) is an Italian philosopher, professor of moral philosophy at the University of Rome III in Italy.
With David Macarthur, he has defended a metaphilosohical view called liberal naturalism.
[1][2] De Caro spent two years at MIT as a visiting graduate student and one as a Fulbright Fellow at Harvard University.
[3] He is the editor of Interpretations and Causes: New Perspectives on Donald Davidson’s Philosophy,[4] Naturalism in Question with David Macarthur,[5] Cartographies of the Mind: Philosophy and Psychology in Intersection,[6] Naturalism and Normativity (with David Macarthur),[7] 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 Harvard University Press.
[citation needed] De Caro has given talks in numerous countries, at academic institutions such as Oxford, Harvard, Princeton, Dartmouth, Boston College, Notre Dame, Saint Mary's College (Indiana), Case Western Reserve (Ohio), Colby College, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Paris IV-Sorbonne, Warwick, and Heidelberg, among others, as well as at over sixty Italian universities.