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Just Deserts: Debating Free Will (co-authored with Daniel C. Dennett)
Rejecting Retributivism: Free Will, Punishment, and Criminal Justice
Free Will and Consciousness: A Determinist Account of the Illusion of Free Will.
Exploring the Illusion of Free Will and Moral Responsibility.
Science and Religion: 5 Questions.
Neuroexistentialism: Meaning, Morals, and Purpose in the Age of Neuroscience. (Co-edited w/Owen Flanagan)
Free Will Skepticism in Law and Society: Challenging Retributive Justice (Co-edited with Elizabeth Shaw and Derk Pereboom)
Ted Honderich on Consciousness, Determinism, and Humanity.
Public Health and Safety: The Social Determinants of Health and Criminal Behavior
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Select Interviews: Podcasts, Print, and Radio
- TEDx: The Dark Side of Free Will
- Philosophy Bites (On free will and punishment)
- Debating Free Will: Daniel Dennett and Gregg Caruso (Aeon Magazine)
- Neuroexistentialism: Owen Flanagan and Gregg D. Caruso on a new search for meaning (The Philosopher's Magazine)
- Free Will Debate: Daniel Dennett vs. Gregg Caruso (Michael Shermer Show)
- Free Will, Moral Responsibility, and Policy | Gwen Ngwenya & Gregg Caruso
- Debating Retributivism: Gregg Caruso in conversation with Leo Zaibert
- New Books Network: Interview on Rejecting Retributivism: Free Will, Punishment, and Criminal Justice
- Converging Dialogues: Deserts: Free Will and Moral Responsibility
- Print interview for NOVA's The Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers
- The Guardian: The ClockWork Universe: Is Free Will an Illusion
- The Wright Show (PhilosophyOfLife.TV) | Free Will and Neuroscience
- Gregg Caruso: Just Deserts, and Rejecting Retributivism [The Dissenter]
- Rationally Speaking: Gregg Caruso on Free Will and Moral Responsibility
- The Illusion of Free Will (Political Philosophy Podcast, Part I)
- Containment and Deterrence (Political Philosophy Podcast: Part II)
- The Philosopher's Zone: Free Will, Retribution, and Just Deserts
- Community Matters on KZUM 89.3 FM, November 21, 2016.
- Equal Time For Freethought | WBAI Radio | Free Will, Consciousness, and Criminal Punishment
- Informal Hour, Episode 8: Free Will, Punishment and Justice
- SpaceTimeMind: Episode 7
- Skeptical Sunday. Hosted by John Sullivan. In it we discuss the relationship between science and religion. [Interview begins around the 55 min mark and lasts about an hour.]
- Skeptical Sunday. Hosted by John Sullivan. In it we discussed my two books on free will and moral responsibility. [The interview begins around the 1:10 mark and lasts about 50 min.]
- Fossil Hunting: Interview about my hobby outside philosophy
Gregg D. Caruso is Professor of Philosophy at SUNY Corning, Visiting Fellow at the New College of the Humanities (NCH London), and Honorary Professor of Philosophy at Macquarie University. He is also Co-Director of the Justice Without Retribution Network housed at the University of Aberdeen School of Law. His research focuses on free will, moral responsibility, punishment, philosophy of law, jurisprudence, social and political philosophy, moral philosophy, philosophy of mind, moral psychology, and neurolaw. His books include Rejecting Retributivism: Free Will, Punishment, and Criminal Justice (2021), Just Deserts: Debating Free Will (w/Daniel C. Dennett) (2021), Free Will and Consciousness: A Determinist Account of the Illusion of Free Will (2012), Exploring the Illusion of Free Will and Moral Responsibility (2013), Science and Religion: 5 Questions (2014), Neuroexistentialism: Meaning, Morals, and Purpose in the Age of Neuroscience (co-edited w/Owen Flanagan); and Free Will Skepticism in Law and Society (co-edited w/Elizabeth Shaw and Derk Pereboom).