Mario De Caro
Biographic Data
| ID | 2235539 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mario De Caro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mario |
| FAMILY NAME | De Caro |
| SIGNATURE | DE CARO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Philosophy, Università Roma Tre |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Stalemate in Naturalizing Ethics
This essay critically examines whether ethical naturalization – understood as the grounding of moral inquiry in empirical sciences – can resolve enduring normative disputes. Focusing specifically on the conflict between retributivist and consequentialist justifications of punishment, we investigate whether naturalistic approaches (drawing on evolutionary psychology, neuroscience, and behavioral economics), in addition to explaining the origins an…
The ethical model of orchestra conducting
This article investigates the ethical requirements and features that characterize the professional life of successful contemporary classical orchestras, with particular focus on the leadership style of their conductors. As we will show, the traditional authoritarian approach, marked by the conductor’s commanding charisma and strict demand for obedience from orchestra members, has evolved today into a more ethically-based transformational style of…
Emotional Skillfulness and Virtue Acquisition
In this chapter, the authors offer a sketch of the state of the art as concerns existing accounts of virtue acquisition in relation to automaticity. In particular, the chapter focuses on the so-called “skill model,” which the authors aim to improve by questioning its rather common underlying dualistic picture of the mind. Then, the authors propose an account of skillful emotions by identifying the features that make them both automatic and embedd…
The Routledge Handbook of Liberal Naturalism
The work of David Hume (1711–1776) is regarded as one of the most influential articulations of a naturalistic approach in philosophy, interpreted by many as a key inspiration for naturalist projects in a range of areas. Hume's ambition was to investigate the foundations of our thought and practice with the aim of explaining our beliefs, ideas, emotions and behavior in ways that rendered them intelligible by science. Interpretations of Hume have o…
Nature, value, and normativity
This brief introduction expounds the reasons behind the collection of essays entitled ‘Nature, Value and Normativity’. Political and social philosophers have usually a hard time finding a role for considerations about nature (and human nature in particular) in their accounts of normativity, due to the risk of committing the naturalistic fallacy and/or running against people’s autonomy. Scepticism about appeals to nature in normative accounts of p…
The indispensability of the manifest image
It is very contentious whether the features of the manifest image have a place in the world as it is described by natural science. For the advocates of strict (or scientific) naturalism, this is a serious problem, which has been labelled ‘placement problem’. In this light, some of them try to show that those features are reducible to scientifically acceptable ones. Others, instead, argue that the features of the manifest image are mere illusions …
Morality and Interpretation
Phronesis as Ethical Expertise
Arcipelago Putnam
Naturalism, Realism, and Normativity
Hilary Putnam's writings have shaped fields from epistemology to ethics, metaphysics to the philosophy of physics, the philosophy of mathematics to the philosophy of mind. This volume reflects his latest thinking on how to articulate a theory of naturalism which acknowledges that normative phenomena form an ineluctable part of human experience.
The view from outside
What aesthetic interest do we have in watching films? In a much debated paper, Roger Scruton argued that this interest typically comes down to the interest in the dramatic representations recorded by such films. Berys Gaut and Catharine Abell criticized Scruton’s argument by claiming that films can elicit an aesthetic interest also by virtue of their pictorial representation. In this article, we develop a different criticism of Scruton’s argument…
Naturalism and the First-Person Perspective
Many contemporary philosophers hold a version of scientific naturalism, the view according to which (i) scientific ontology is all the ontology there is and (ii) the methods of science are the only legitimate ways of knowing (and consequently all other alleged ways of knowing are either illusory or reducible in principle to the scientific ones). A corollary of this view is that philosophy is continuous with science with respect to subject matter,…
Presentazione
Bellarmine's Revenge? On Some Recent Trends in the Roman Catholic Church Concerning the Relation of Faith and Science
For many centuries, since the beginning of the modern age, the Roman Catholic Church held an ambivalent attitude toward science, until an enlightened position seemed to prevail at the end of the twentieth century, with two papal statements that respectively concerned Galileo's trial and Darwin's theory. In the last few years, however, within the higher circles of the Vatican, a less open-minded stance with regard to both the natural and the socia…
Naturalism in Question
Bellarmine's Revenge? On Some Recent Trends in the Roman Catholic Church Concerning the Relation of Faith and Science
For many centuries, since the beginning of the modern age, the Roman Catholic Church held an ambivalent attitude toward science, until an enlightened position seemed to prevail at the end of the twentieth century, with two papal statements that respectively concerned Galileo's trial and Darwin's theory. In the last few years, however, within the higher circles of the Vatican, a less open-minded stance with regard to both the natural and the socia…
Naturalism in Question
Bellarmine's Revenge? On Some Recent Trends in the Roman Catholic Church Concerning the Relation of Faith and Science
For many centuries, since the beginning of the modern age, the Roman Catholic Church held an ambivalent attitude toward science, until an enlightened position seemed to prevail at the end of the twentieth century, with two papal statements that respectively concerned Galileo's trial and Darwin's theory. In the last few years, however, within the higher circles of the Vatican, a less open-minded stance with regard to both the natural and the socia…
Presentazione
Naturalism and the First-Person Perspective
Many contemporary philosophers hold a version of scientific naturalism, the view according to which (i) scientific ontology is all the ontology there is and (ii) the methods of science are the only legitimate ways of knowing (and consequently all other alleged ways of knowing are either illusory or reducible in principle to the scientific ones). A corollary of this view is that philosophy is continuous with science with respect to subject matter,…
Naturalism, Realism, and Normativity
Hilary Putnam's writings have shaped fields from epistemology to ethics, metaphysics to the philosophy of physics, the philosophy of mathematics to the philosophy of mind. This volume reflects his latest thinking on how to articulate a theory of naturalism which acknowledges that normative phenomena form an ineluctable part of human experience.
The view from outside
What aesthetic interest do we have in watching films? In a much debated paper, Roger Scruton argued that this interest typically comes down to the interest in the dramatic representations recorded by such films. Berys Gaut and Catharine Abell criticized Scruton’s argument by claiming that films can elicit an aesthetic interest also by virtue of their pictorial representation. In this article, we develop a different criticism of Scruton’s argument…
Arcipelago Putnam
Phronesis as Ethical Expertise
Nature, value, and normativity
This brief introduction expounds the reasons behind the collection of essays entitled ‘Nature, Value and Normativity’. Political and social philosophers have usually a hard time finding a role for considerations about nature (and human nature in particular) in their accounts of normativity, due to the risk of committing the naturalistic fallacy and/or running against people’s autonomy. Scepticism about appeals to nature in normative accounts of p…
The indispensability of the manifest image
It is very contentious whether the features of the manifest image have a place in the world as it is described by natural science. For the advocates of strict (or scientific) naturalism, this is a serious problem, which has been labelled ‘placement problem’. In this light, some of them try to show that those features are reducible to scientifically acceptable ones. Others, instead, argue that the features of the manifest image are mere illusions …
Morality and Interpretation
Emotional Skillfulness and Virtue Acquisition
In this chapter, the authors offer a sketch of the state of the art as concerns existing accounts of virtue acquisition in relation to automaticity. In particular, the chapter focuses on the so-called “skill model,” which the authors aim to improve by questioning its rather common underlying dualistic picture of the mind. Then, the authors propose an account of skillful emotions by identifying the features that make them both automatic and embedd…
The Routledge Handbook of Liberal Naturalism
The work of David Hume (1711–1776) is regarded as one of the most influential articulations of a naturalistic approach in philosophy, interpreted by many as a key inspiration for naturalist projects in a range of areas. Hume's ambition was to investigate the foundations of our thought and practice with the aim of explaining our beliefs, ideas, emotions and behavior in ways that rendered them intelligible by science. Interpretations of Hume have o…
A Stalemate in Naturalizing Ethics
This essay critically examines whether ethical naturalization – understood as the grounding of moral inquiry in empirical sciences – can resolve enduring normative disputes. Focusing specifically on the conflict between retributivist and consequentialist justifications of punishment, we investigate whether naturalistic approaches (drawing on evolutionary psychology, neuroscience, and behavioral economics), in addition to explaining the origins an…
The ethical model of orchestra conducting
This article investigates the ethical requirements and features that characterize the professional life of successful contemporary classical orchestras, with particular focus on the leadership style of their conductors. As we will show, the traditional authoritarian approach, marked by the conductor’s commanding charisma and strict demand for obedience from orchestra members, has evolved today into a more ethically-based transformational style of…
Epistemology (13 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · Naturalism (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Virtue (4 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (3 works)