mario de caro synthetic curriculum vitae

MARIO DE CARO
SYNTHETIC CURRICULUM VITAE
Present positions
Mario De Caro is Associate Professor of Moral Philosophy at Università Rome Tre
(expected promotion to Full professor: September 2016). Since the year 2000, he
has also been teaching at Tufts University (Massachusetts), where he is regularly a
Visiting Professor.
Email
[email protected]; [email protected]
Education
First degree (1990: grade 110/110 cum laude) and PhD (1996) in Philosophy at
Università La Sapienza, Roma. He spent two years (1994 and 1995) as a
Visiting Graduate Student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Other appointments
Visiting teaching positions at
(a) Università di L’Aquila (1998-2001);
(b) Saint Mary’s College (Notre Dame, Indiana), Rome Campus: 1994-2001;
home campus: 1998;
(c) Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Theology, Università della Svizzera
Italiana, Lugano (Switzerland), 2014;
(d) Teaching Visiting Professor for the Erasmus Program at the Universities of
Warwick (2015) and Madrid Autónoma (2008).
(d) Institute of Philosophy and of Ecology and Bioethics at Cardinal Stefan
Wyszynski University, Warsaw, Poland, 2015; LUISS University Rome, Phd
Program (since 2010).
Other professional appointments
Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Philosophical Association
(Cambridge UP).
Member of the editorial boards of several Italian and international journals, including
Rivista di estetica, Paradigmi, Filosofia e questioni pubbliche, Colloquium
Philosophicum, Anthropologica, Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e
Psicologia, Democrazia e sicurezza, Philosophical Inquiries, Linguistic and
Philosophical Investigations, Review of Contemporary Philosophy, Análisis:
revista de investigación filosófica, Analysis and Metaphysics, Journal of The
European Society for Moral Philosophy, and Acta Philosophica. Coeditor of the
series “Nuovo realismo” (Mimesis editore) and member of the Scientific
committee of the series of books “Categories” (Olms).
Literary executor for Hilary Putnam.
Former President of the Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy (2010-2012).
Vice-president of the Consulta Nazionale di Filosofia (which groups all Italian
academic philosophers).
Member of the American Philosophical Association and former member of its
“Committee on Academic Career Opportunities and Placement” (2010-2013).
Member of the Scientific Committee of the European Society for Moral Philosophy
(2016- )
Member of the steering committee of: (a) Italian Association for Moral Philosophy
(2013 - 2019) (b) Rome Division of the Italian Society of Philosophy, (20132016 ) (c) Italian Association for Cognitive Science (2014-2017) (d) Italian
Association of Neuroethics and Philosophy of Neurosciences (2014-2016).
Former member of the Steering Committee and Secretary of the Italian Society for
Political Philosophy.
Coordinator of the Roman section of the Laboratory of Ontology (LabOnt).
Former elective member of the Board of Directors of Università Roma Tre (20022010).
Delegate of the President for the relationship with the student body. Coordinator of
the programs for the education of the philosophy and history high school.
Consultant of; the Fulbright Commission, of the Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council of Canada, of the Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Ensino
Superior del Portogallo and of the Research Foundation of Flanders.
Referee for Harvard University Press, Columbia University Press, Routledge,
Palgrave, Bloomsbury, Acumen Publisher (UK), Laterza, Carocci, Fazi e
Meltermi (Italy), for the journals Synthese, Philosophia, Philosophical
Papers, Philosophical Explorations, Journal of Cognitive Science, Topoi, The
Southern Journal of Philosophy, Journal of Mind and Society, Paradigmi,
Filosofia e questioni pubbliche, Rivista di estetica, Rivista di filosofia, and
Sistemi intelligenti.
Member of dissertation committees at Columbia University, Paris IV - Sorbonne,
Universidad de Valencia, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Geneva, Lugano,
Genova, LUISS (Roma), Roma “Tor Vergata”, Firenze, Macerata, Padova,
Pavia, Sassari, Siena, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Università “La
Sapienza” di Roma, Università di Siena, Università di Aquila, Università Statale
di Pisa.
Member of the committee of the National Department of Education of the Ministery
of Education, University, and Research for the program “Prevention of gender
and discrimination violence”.
Scholarships, Research Grants, and Honors
2015-2017: Grant of the Templeton Foundation for a project related to the call “The
Science and Philosophy of Self-Control” (2015-2017) (with Marcel Brass,
University of Ghent, Belgium).
2009-2011; 2013-2015: Two national PRIN grants as the Main Investigator of a
research-unit.
2011-2013: Winner of grant for a High-level Internationalization Project at Università
Roma Tre (2011-2013).
2002-2004; 2005-2007; 2007-2009: Three national PRIN grants as a member of a
research-unit.
2006: The asteroid 5329 (discovered in 1989) is named “Asteroid DeCaro” in his
honor.
1998-1999: Marco Mondadori Fellowship, from Fondazione Marco Mondadori and
CERSDU – LUISS University.
1997-1998: Fulbright Fellowship at Harvard University.
Talks and conferences
Invited talks given in the Italy, United States, UK, Germany, France, Spain,
Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, India, Poland, Portugal, Croatia, Serbia, Czech
Republic, Austria, and the Vatican. The institutions where he has given talks
include Oxford University, Harvard University, Princeton University,
Dartmouth College, University of Notre Dame, Tufts University, Boston
College, University of Massachusetts (at Amherst), Case Western University,
Indiana University (at Bloomington), University of New Hampshire, College of
the Holy Cross, Institute Jean Nicod (École Normale Supérieure, Paris), Paris 1
Panthéon-Sorbonne, CNRS Paris, Paris IV-Sorbonne, Bonn, Heidelberg,
Bamberg, Ghent, Bern, Genéve, Lugano, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid,
Università Lateranense, Università della Santa Croce, Università Urbaniana,
Univerisità San Tommaso d’Aquino Angelicum, and more than 50 Italian
universities.
Commencement speeches at Scuola Normale di Pisa (2011) and Accademia Cattolica
di Brescia (2014).
Interests
Moral philosophy, philosophy of mind, philosophy of film, the perspectives of
philosophical naturalism, the free-will controversy, theory of action,
metaphysics, and history of Renaissance and early modern philosophy and
science.
Public interventions
Regular contributions to the cultural pages of the daily national newspaper Il Sole 24
OreArticles for the cultural sections of The London Times, La Repubblica, La Stampa and
Il Manifesto.
Host of the four series of the television show Zettel, dedicated to philosophy and
broadcasted by RAI (the Italian national public service broadcaster) (20122015) and frequente guest of the RAI television show Lo stato dell’arte (2016),
dedicated to general culture.
Auhor, with two coauthors, of a general history of philosophy for high school and
college students, with the Italian publisher Laterza.
Speaker at a conference at the Italian House of Parliament (2015).
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
I. VOLUMES
a. Volumes and special issues of journals in English
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Editor of the volume of essays by Hilary Putnam, In Dialogue, Harvard University
Press, Cambridge (MA), in preparation.
Editor of the volume of essays by Hilary Putnam, Naturalism, Realism, and
Normativity, Harvard University Press, Cambridge (MA), forthcoming March 1,
2016.
Editor of a special issue of The Monist, dedicated to “New Realism” (with M.
Ferraris), Spring 2015.
Editor of a special issue of Methode dedicated to the free will issue (with S.
Bonicalzi), containing interviews to Balaguer, Berofsky, Campbell, Clarke, Dennett,
Fischer, Haji, Horgan, Kane, Kapitan, McKenna, Mele, Michon, Moya, Nahmias,
Nelkin, Pink, Roskies, Russell, Sartorio, Smilansky, Steward, Strawson, Swinburne,
van Inwagen, Vargas, Vihvelin, Walter), 2014.
Editor of the volume of essays by Hilary Putnam, Philosophy in the Age of
Science( with D. Macarthur), Harvard University Press, Cambridge (MA) 2012
[Italian translation 2014].
Editor of The Architecture of Reason. Epistemology, Agency, and Science (with R.
Egidi), Carocci, Rome 2010.
Editor of Naturalism and Normativity (with D. Macarthur), Columbia University
Press, New York, 2010 (essays by A. Bilgrami, M. De Caro, H. Dreyfus, E. Kelly,
D. Macarthur, P. Menzies, H. Price, H. Putnam, R. Rorty, C. Rovane, T. Scanlon, G.
Smith, S. White).
Editor of Cartographies of the Mind. Philosophy and Psychology in Intersection,
Springer, Dordrecht 2007 (with F. Ferretti and M. Marraffa, essays by: T. Bayne, R.
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Cordeschi e M. Frixione, M. De Caro, M. Di Francesco, D. Giarretta e P. Cherubini,
E. Gola, S. Gozzano, C. DeLancey, F. Ferretti, G. Jervis, R. Kennedy e G. Graham,
A. Kostko e J. Bickle, F. Macpherson, M. Marraffa, C. Meini, A. Mele, Eddy
Nahmias, A. Paternoster, G. Piccinini, J. Sutton, S.L. White, T. Zalla) (.
Editor of Naturalism in Question (with David Macarthur), Harvard University Press,
Cambridge Mass., May 2004 (second edition 2008) (essays by: A. Bilgrami, S.
Cavell, D. Davidson, M. De Caro, J. McDowell, J. Dupré, J. Hornsby, E. Kelly,
D. Macarthur, H. Price, H. Putnam, C. Rovane, B. Stroud, S. White, M. Williams).
[Italian translation 2006].
Editor of Interpretations and Causes. New Perspectives on Donald Davidson’s
Philosophy, Synthese Library (vol. 285), Kluwer Publishers,
Dordrecht/Boston/London, 1999 (essays by: Donald Davidson, Akeel Bilgrami,
Martia Cavell, Mario De Caro, Raffaella Di Rosa, Rosaria Egidi, Simone Gozzano,
Paolo Leonardi, Ernest Lepore, Peter Ludlow, Sandro Nannini, Eva Picardi, Antonio
Rainone, Ted Warfield, Neil Tennant
b. Volumes in Italian
b.1. Volumes authored
i. Academic volumes
1) Naturalismo [“Naturalism”], Il Mulino, Bologna, forthcoming 2017.
2) Realtà [“Reality”], Bollati Boringhieri, Torino, forthcoming in 2016.
3) Etica e scienze cognitive [“Ethics and Cognitive Science”] (with M. Marraffa), LUISS
University Press, Roma, forthcoming in 2016.
4) Azione [“Action”], Il Mulino, Bologna 2008.
5) Il libero arbitrio. Un’introduzione [“Free Will. An Introduction”], Laterza, RomaBari, 2004; second edition 2006; third edition 2009; fourth edition 2011; fifth
edition 2014; sixth edition 2015.
6) Dal punto di vista dell’interprete. Il pensiero di Donald Davidson [“From the
Interpreter’s Point of View. Donald Davidson‟s Thought”], Carocci, Roma 1998.
7) Interpretazioni e cause [“Interpretations and Causes”], Doctoral dissertation,
Università di Roma.
ii. Non-academic volumes
1) Storia della filosofia: dall’antichità ad oggi (“History of philosophy: from Antiquity
to today”), with A. Conti e S. Velotti (Roma-Bari, Laterza, in preparation).
2) Che cosa vuol dire essere liberi? [What does it mean to be free?] (ebook, Roma-Bari,
Laterza 2015).
3) Come funziona
4) Biografie convergenti. 20 ircocervi filosofici (Mimesis, Milano 2015).
5) Le stelle di Talete: le domande della filosofia (with M. Marraffa), (Roma-Bari,
Laterza 2002).
b. 2.Volumes and special issues of journals edited in Italian
1) Editor (with M. Marraffa) of a special issue of Teoria, dedicated to “Ethics and
Cognitive Science”.
2) Editor (with M. Mori - E. Spinelli) of Libero arbitrio. Storia di una controversia
filosofica, Carocci, Roma, 2014.
3) Editor (with A. Lavazza – G. Sartori) of Quanto siamo responsabili? Filosofia,
neuroscienze e società, Codice, Torino, 2013.
4) Editor (with M. Marraffa) of La filosofia di Ernesto De Martino, special issue of
Paradigmi, 31, 2013.
5) Editor (with L. Illetterati) of a special issue of Verifiche on “Classical German
Philosophy. New Research Perspectives between Analytic Philosophy and the
Pragmatist Tradition”, 46, 2013.
6) Editor (with S. Gozzano) of a special issue of Rivista di filosofia on “The philosophy
of consciousness,” 104, 2013.
7) Editor (with A. Lavazza) of a special issue dedicated to “Neuroetica e neuroscienza”
of Rivista internazionale di filosofia e psicologia, 4, 2013.
8) Editor (with M. Ferraris) of Bentornata realtà. Il nuovo realismo in discussione,
Einaudi, Torino, 2012.
9) Editor (with S. Poggi), La filosofia analitica e le altre tradizioni, Carocci, Roma,
2011.
10) Guest editor, Naturalismo, special issue of Rivista di Estetica, 44, 2010 (with C.
Barbero and A. Voltolini).
11) Editor of Siamo davvero liberi? Le neuroscienze e il mistero del libero arbitrio,
Codice, Torino 2010 (second edition 2010; third edition 2011) (with A. Lavazza and
G. Sartori).
12) Guest editor of E’ naturale essere naturalisti?, special issue of Etica e politica, 9,
2010 (with C. Barbero - A. Voltolini).
13) Editor of Scetticismo. Storia di una vicenda filosofia, Carocci, Roma 2007
(second edition 2007; third edition, 2008) (with E. Spinelli).
14) Editor of La mente e la natura, Fazi, Roma 2005 (Italian version of Naturalism in
Question) (with D. Macarthur).
15) Editor of the Italian version of H. Putnam, The Fact/Value Dicothomy, Fazi, Roma,
2004.
16) Editor of Normatività, fatti, valori, Quodlibet, Macerata, 2003 (essays by G.H.
von Wright, J. Hornsby, R. Fogelin, et alii) (with Rosaria Egidi and Massimo
Dell’Utri).
17) Editor of Logica della libertà [“The Logic of Freedom”], Meltemi, Roma, 2002
(contains the Italian translation of essays by A. Ayer, R. Chisholm, P.F. Strawson, P.
van Inwagen, H. Frankfurt).
18) Guest editor of “Libertà e Determinismo” [“Freedom and Determinism”], special
issue of Paradigmi, 3, 1999.
II. ARTICLES
a. In English
1) “Quantum Mechanics and Free Will” (with H. Putnam), forthcoming.
2) “Utilitarianism and Retributivism”, in The Italian Law Journal, forthcoming.
3) “Debunking the Pyramidal Mind: A Plea for Sinergy between Reason and Emotion,”
Journal of Comparative Neurology (Impact factor: 3.508), published online: August
25, 2015 DOI: 10.1002/cne.23870; paper version forthcoming.
4) “Putnam’s Liberal Naturalism,” in M. Frauchige (ed.), Themes from Putnam (Berlin:
Ontos Verlag), forthcoming.
5) “Davidson and Putnam on the Antinomy of Freedom”, Hilary Putnam’s Philosophy
(Proceedings of the 2011 Harvard/Brandeis Conference in Honor of Hilary Putnam),
Oxford University Press, Oxford, forthcoming.
6) “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, forthcoming.
7) “The View from Outside: On a Distinctively Cinematic Achievement” (with E.
Terrone), Philosophy and Social Criticism, 524, 8, 1 June 2016, 1695–1698; online
version:
http://psc.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/06/08/0191453715588993.abstract.
8) “Bacon against Descartes. Emotions, Rationality, Defenses” (with M. Marraffa), in G.
De Anna and R. Martinelli (eds.), Moral Realism and Political Decisions. Practical
Rationality in Contemporary Public Contexts, University of Bamberg Press, Bamberg
2015, pp. 63-80.
9) “Free Will and Retribution Today” (with M. Marraffa), Ethics in Progress, 5 (2),
2014, pp. 5-20
10) “Medicine and Philosophy: back to Antiquity,” editorial for the Annali Istituto
Superiore di Sanità, 51 (2), 2015, 89.
11) “Realism, Common Sense, and Science”, The Monist, 2015, pp. 197-214.
12) Entries “Liberal Naturalism” (with D. Macarthur), “Italian Philosophy” and
“Renaissance Philosophy” (with S. Poggi), revision of the entry “Hilary Putnam”
(with D. Anderson) in R. Audi (ed.), Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy,
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 20153.
13) “Tolerance: Too Little or Too Much? On Robert Audi’s Democratic Authority and the
Separation of Church and State”, Philosophy and Public Issues (New Series), 3, (2),
2013), pp. 67-88.
14) “Davidson and Putnam on the antinomy of freedom,” in A. Berger (ed.), Proceedings
to: Philosophy in an Age of Science. A Conference in Honor of Hilary Putnam,
Oxford University Press, Oxford, forthcoming.
15) “Free Will as an Illusion: Ethical and Epistemological Consequences of an Alleged
Revolutionary Truth, “Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective, 3, 12, 2014,
pp. 40-50.
16) “The View from Outside On a Distinctively Cinematic Achievement” (with E.
Terrone), Philosophy and Social Criticism, Philosophy and Social Criticism (on line),
2015.
17) Entries “Liberal Naturalism”, “Italian Philosophy” and “Renaissance Philosophy”
(with S. Poggi) and revision of the entry “Hilary Putnam” for R. Audi (ed.),
Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, 3rd ed., forthcoming.
18) “In the Offing? Neuroscience and the Solution of the Free Will Problem”,
Philosophical Inquiries, 1, 2013, pp. 93-106.
19) “Naturalism, mysterianism and the agential concepts”, in G. De Anna (ed.), Willing
the Good, Cambridge Scholars Publisher, 2013, pp. 244-254.
20) “Is Moral Emotivism Supported by Evolutionary Psychology?,” in J.J. Sanguineti
(ed.), Moral Cognition and Behavior Philosophical and Neuroscientific Approach, If
Press, Morolo 2011, pp. 95-10
21) “The Short Happy Life of the Swampman: Davidson and Social Externalism,” in C.
Amoretti - G. Preyer (eds.), Triangulation: From an Epistemological Point of
View, Ontos, Frankfurt, 2011, pp. 179-196.
22) “Hilary Putnam: Artisanal Polymath of Philosophy,” introduction to Hilary
Putnam, Philosophy in an Age of Science, Harvard University Press, Cambridge
(MA) forthcoming (with D. Macarthur).
23) “Determinism, Moral Responsibility and Punishment in the Age of Cognitive
Science” in De Caro - Egidi (a cura di), The Architecture of Reason, 2011, pp. 173188 (with M. Marraffa).
24) “Emergence and Naturalism,” in A. Corradini - T. O‟Connor (eds.), Emergence
in Science and Philosophy, Routledge, London, 2010, pp. 190- 211.
25) “Science, Naturalism and the Problem of Normativity,” introduction to M. De Caro D. Macarthur (eds.), Normativity and Naturalism, Columbia University Press, New
York, 2011, pp. 1-19 (with D. Macarthur).
26) “Is Liberal Naturalism Possible?,” in De Caro - Macarthur (ed.), Naturalism and
Normativity, 2011, pp. 69-86 (with A. Voltolini).
27) “Varieties of Naturalism,” in G. Bealer - R. Koons (eds.), Waining of Materialism,
Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pp. 365-374.
28) “Beyond Scientism,” in R. Calcaterra (ed.), Pragmatism and Analytic Philosophy,
Rodopi, Amsterdam, 2011, pp. 21-34.
29) “Not So Fast. On Some Bold Neuroscientific Claims concerning Human Agency,”
Neuroethics, 3, 2010, pp. 23-41 (with A. Lavazza).
30) “Bellarmino‟s Revenge,” Boundary 2, 37, 1, 2010, pp. 1-22 (with T. Pievani).
31) “Skepticism and Naturalism,” Iris, 2, 2009, pp. 161-170.
32) “Mental Maps and the Varieties of Spatial Imagination,” in P.A. Brandt - C.
Carstensen (eds.), The Map is not the Territory, Esbjerg Kunstmuseum, Esbjerg
(Denmark) 2008, pp. 162-166 (with S.L. White).
33) “The Normative Dimension of Thought and Action: Alan Millar on Interpersonal
Understanding,” Philosophy of Mind Review (SWIF)
(http://www.swif.uniba.it/lei/mind/swifpmr.htm), 2007.
34) “The Claims of Naturalism,” in C. Penco, M. Beaney, M. Vignolo (eds.),
Explaining the Mental Naturalist and Non-Naturalist Approaches to Mental Acts
and Processes, Cambridge Scholar Publishing, Newcastle, 2007, pp. 222-237.
35) “How to deal with the free will issue: The roles of conceptual analysis and
empirical science,” in M. Marraffa - M. De Caro - F. Ferretti (eds.), Cartographies
of the Mind, 2007, pp. 255-268.
36) “Is anomalous monism a suitable theory of freedom?,” in F. Castellani - J.
Quitterer (eds.), Agency and causation in the human sciences, Mentis Verlag,
Paderborn 2006, pp. 141-152.
37) “Is Freedom Really a Mystery?,” in De Caro - Macarthur (ed.), Naturalism in
Question, 2004, pp. 188-200.
38) “Naturalism: Beyond a Philosophical Orthodoxy,” in De Caro - Macarthur (ed.),
Naturalism in Question, 2004, pp. 1-17 (with D. Macarthur).
39) “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 Publisher,
Dordrecht, 1999, pp. 123-130.
40) “Davidson in Focus,” in M. De Caro (ed.), Interpretations and Causes, 1999, pp. 129.
41) “Galileo‟s Mathematical Platonism,” in G. Czermak (ed.), Philosophy of
Mathematics, Hoelder-Pichler-Tempsky, Wien 1992, p. 1-9 (other essays by D.
Dummett, M. Detlefsen, I. Grattan-Guinness, S. Feferman, N. Cartwright et al.).
42) “The Problem of Discrimination of Science and Art in Kuhn‟s and Feyerabend‟s
Philosophies of Science,” Philosophy and Natural Sciences: Borderline
Questions,Reports of the 13th Wittgenstein Symposium, Hoelder- Pichler-Tempsky,
Wien 1989, pp. 121-125.
b. In German
1) “Zwei Formen des Realismus”, in M. Gabriel (herausgegeben von), Die neuen
Realismus, Suhrkamp, forthcoming.
2) “Der Blick der Eurydike,” Hermann-Hesse-Jahrbuch, 4, 2007, pp. 164-172.
c. In Romanian
1) “Cum să analizezi problema liberului arbitru: rolyrile analizei conceptuale şi ale ştiinţelor
empirice,” Linguistic and Philosophical Investigations, 5(2), 2006, pp. 75-94 (in
Romanian, translation by Gorge Lăzăroiou).
d. In Spanish
1) “Música, lenguaje y filosofía,” Itamar, 3, 2010, pp. 103-112.
e. In Polish
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“Realism and liberal naturalism” [Polish translation], forthcoming.
f. Articles in Italian
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“Utilitarismo e retributivismo in Cesare Beccaria”, in Antigone Quadrimestrale di
critica del sistema penale e penitenziario, 2015, forthcoming.
“Il ritorno del libero arbitrio”, Rivista teologica di Lugano, 2015, forthcoming.
“Libertà”, IX Appendice della Grande Encicolopedia Treccani, Istituto
dell’Enciclopedia Italiana, forthcoming.
“Realismo”, Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana, IX Appendice della Grande
Encicolopedia Treccani, forthcoming.
“L’avvento dei marsupiali. Nuovo realismo e naturalismo liberalizzato”, in L.
Messinese (a cura di), Per un realismo integrale, forthcoming.
“Realismo e naturalismo”, in F. Coniglione (a cura di), La domanda civile di filosofia.
Atti del 38° Convegno 2013 della Società Filosofica Italiana, Bonanno editore,
Catania, 2015, pp. 30-44.
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“Postfazione” al “Focus” sulla filosofia dell’oggettualità, Lebenswelt, 5, 2014, pp.
120-123.
“La novità del nuovo realismo”, ECPS Journal, 9, 2014, pp. 51-62.
“Introduzione” to a special issue on theories of consciousness, Rivista di Filosofia
(with S. Gozzano), 104, 2013, pp. 361-366.
“Analisi concettuale e scienza: il dibattito contemporaneo sul libero arbitrio”, in M.
De Caro, M. Mori, E. Spinelli (a cura di), Libero arbitrio. Storia di una controversia
filosofica, Carocci, Roma 2014, pp. 365-379.
“Il problema filosofico della responsabilità”, in M. De Caro – A. Lavazza – G.
Sartori, Quanto siamo responsabili? Filosofia, neuroscienze e società, Codice, Torino
2013, pp. 25-38.
“Presentazione” of the special issue of Paradigmi (25, 2013) dedicato a La filosofia di
Ernesto De Martino, pp. 4-7.
“Machiavelli e Lucrezio”, postface to A. Brown, Machiavelli e Lucrezio. Fortuna e
libertà nella Firenze del Rinascimento, Carocci, Roma, 2013, pp. 113-126.
“Metafisica e naturalismo: una entente cordiale?”, Sistemi intelligenti, 25, 2013, pp.
84-94.
“Galileo e il platonismo fisico-matematico”, in R. Chiaradonna (ed), Il platonismo e
le scienze, Carocci, Roma 2012, pp. 119-138.
“Introduzione” (with R. Chiaradonna) to R. Chiaradonna (ed.), Il platonismo e le
scienze, Carocci, Roma 2012, pp. 13-21.
“Naturalismo nel mirino: ma quale intendiamo?”, Vita e pensiero, 94, 2011, pp. 8488.
Autonomia della filosofia e neuroscienze,” Rivista di Filosofia, 102, 2011, pp. 278283.
“Libero arbitrio e neuroscienze,” in A. Lavazza, G. Sartori (a cura di), Neuroetica, Il
Mulino, Bologna 2011, pp. 69-83
“Filosofia della mente,” in Dizionario della mente Treccani, Istituto
dell‟Enciclopedia Italiana Italiana, Roma 2010, pp. 391-394.
“Neuro-mania e naturalismo” (commento, su invito, all‟articolo target di Cristiano
Castelfranchi e Fabio Paglieri) (con A. Lavazza), Giornale italiano di psicologia, 2,
2009, pp. 319-323.
“Il migliore dei naturalismi possibili Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics, XI, 2009,
2, pp. 179−191 (with A. Voltolini).
“Psicologia, intenzionalità, scopi: un punto di vista filosofico,” (invited commentary
to a target article by C. Castelfranchi and F. Paglieri), Giornale italiano di
psicologia, 35, 2008, pp. 785-789.
“Libertà e responsabilità morale,” in Enciclopedia del Terzo Millenio, Istituto
dell‟Enciclopedia Italiana, Roma 2009, pp. 151-159.
“Le neuroscienze cognitive e l'enigma del libero arbitrio,” in M. Di Francesco – M.
Marraffa (a cura di), Il soggetto. Scienze della mente e natura dell’io, Bruno
Mondadori, Milano 2009, pp.147-165.
“Neuroetica e libero arbitrio,” in S. Bacin (a cura di), Etiche antiche e moderne, Il
Mulino, Bologna 2010, pp. 101-118.
Introduction to the Italian translation of John Dupré, Human Nature and the Limits
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