Awards: SUNY Distinguished Professorship (2024); SUNY Chancellors Award for Excellence in Scholarship (2015); Regional Board of Trustees Excellence in Teaching Award (2012); and American Philosophical Association's Joseph B. Gittler Award for outstanding scholarly contribution in the field of philosophy of one or more of the social sciences for his book Rejecting Retributivism (2022).
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Gregg D. Caruso is the author of eight books and over forty journal articles and book chapters. His books have been translated into numerous languages—including Italian, French, Japanese, Chinese, Polish, Spanish, and Arabic.
He was featured in the documentary Free Will? A Documentary.
He has also been featured in numerous magazines and newspapers from around the world—including New Philosopher(US/UK), Knack (Dutch), Corriere della Sera Sette(Italian), The Guardian (UK), Sens psychologia dla ciebie (Polish), etc.
In addition to his scholarly writings, he has published popular pieces in Aeon, The Philosopher's Magazine, Arc Digital, Psychology Today, and The Philosopher.
Gregg D. Caruso is Director of the Patrick J. Waide Center for Applied Ethics and Professor of Ethics and Management at Fairfield University. He is also Honorary Professor of Philosophy at Macquarie University, Scientific Advisor for the Center for Justice and Mental Well-Being at the Nova Institute for Heath, and Co-Director of the Justice Without Retribution Network at the University of Aberdeen. His research focuses on free will, moral responsibility, criminal punishment, moral psychology, neuroethics, business ethics, public health approaches to crime prevention, and moral and political philosophy.
His books include Why Putting People Before Profit Matters (forthcoming), How to Live Well Without Free will (2026), Neurolaw (2024), Moral Responsibility Reconsidered (w/Derk Pereboom, 2022), Rejecting Retributivism: Free Will, Punishment, and Criminal Justice (2021), Just Deserts: Debating Free Will (w/Daniel C. Dennett) (2021), Public Health an Safety: The Social Determinants of Health and Criminal Behavior (2017), and Free Will and Consciousness: A Determinist Account of the Illusion of Free Will (2012).