Mario De Caro is a Full Professor of Moral Philosophy at Roma Tre University and a Visiting Professor at Tufts University (USA), where he has been teaching since 2000. A former Fulbright fellow at Harvard and visiting scholar at MIT, he was also president of the Italian Society of Moral Philosophy (SIFM) and the Italian Society of Analytic Philosophy (SIFA). He is a member of the Steering Committee of the International Federation of Philosophical Associations (FISP) and literary executor for the philosopher and mathematician Hilary Putnam. He has given lectures at over 100 universities in 19 countries and is the author of seven books and over 200 scientific papers in six languages. His areas of interest include: moral philosophy, metaphysics, AI ethics, and the history of science and philosophy in the early modern period. He has collaborated with RAI and Sole 24 Ore; he currently writes for Tuttolibri, La Stampa’s cultural supplement. The asteroid 5329 DeCaro is named after him.