Professor of Philosophy

Authored Books:

Gregg D. Caruso (under contract). Neurolaw. New York: Cambridge University Press. 


Gregg D. Caruso and Derk Pereboom (2022). ​Moral Responsibility Reconsidered. New York: Cambridge University Press.


Gregg D. Caruso (2021). Rejecting Retributivism: Free Will, Punishment​, Criminal Justice. New York: Cambridge University Press.   


Daniel C. Dennett and Gregg D. Caruso (2021). Just Deserts: Debating Free Will​. New York: Polity Books.  

 

Gregg D. Caruso. (2017). Public Health and Safety: The Social Determinants of Health and Criminal Behavior. UK: ResearchLinks Books.

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Gregg D. Caruso (2012). Free Will and Consciousness: A Determinist Account of the Illusion of Free Will. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

 

Edited Books:

Elizabeth Shaw, Derk Pereboom, and Gregg D. Caruso (eds.) (2019). Free Will Skepticism in Law and Society: Challenging Retributive Justice. New York: Cambridge University Press. 

 

Gregg D. Caruso and Owen Flanagan (eds.) (2018). Neuroexistentialism: Meaning, Morals, and Purpose in the Age of Neuroscience. New York: Oxford University Press. 

 

Gregg D. Caruso (ed.) (2018). Ted Honderich on Consciousness, Determinism, and Humanity. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

 

Gregg D, Caruso (ed.) (2014). Science and Religion: 5 Questions. London: Automatic/VP Press. 

 

Gregg D. Caruso (ed.) (2013). Exploring the Illusion of Free Will and Moral Responsibility. Langham, MD: Lexington Books. 


Edited Journal Special Issues:

Focquaert, Farah, Derk Pereboom, Gregg D. Caruso, and Elizabeth Shaw. 2020. Justice Without Retribution: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Stakeholder Views, and Practical Implications. Neuroethics, Vol. 13, Issue 1.  


Journal Articles and Book Chapters:                                            ​

Gregg D. Caruso (forthcoming). "Why we should reject semiretributivism and be skeptics about basic desert moral responsibility: A reply to John Martin Fischer." Harvard Review of Philosophy​. 


Gregg D. Caruso (forthcoming). "Gregg Caruso on Free Will Skepticism," in How Free Are We? Conversations from the Free Will Show, eds. Taylor W. Cyr and Matthew T. Flummer. New York: Oxford University Press. 


Gregg D. Caruso (forthcoming). "Preemptive Incapacitation, Victim's Rights, Desert, and Respect for Persons: Replies to McCormick and Donelson," Journal of Practical Ethics.

Gregg D. Caruso (forthcoming). "Rejecting Retributivism: Free Will, Punishment, and Criminal Justice: A Precis," Journal of Practical Ethics.


Gregg D. Caruso (2023). "Retributivism, Free Will, and the Public Health-Quarantine Model," in Palgrave Handbook on the Philosophy of Punishment, ed. Matthew Altman. New York: Palgrave.


Gregg D. Caruso (2022). "Punishment and Desert," Humana.Mente: Journal of Philosophical Studies 42: 145-178.


Gregg D. Caruso (2022). "The Public Health-Quarantine Model," in Oxford Handbook of Moral Responsibility, eds. Dana Nelkin and Derk Pereboom. New York: Oxford University Press. 


Gregg D. Caruso (2021). "Retributivism, Free Will Skepticism, and the Public Health-Quarantine Model: Replies to Kennedy, Walen, Corrado, Sifferd, Pereboom, and Shaw," Journal of Legal Philosophy ​46(2): 161-215.  


Gregg D. Caruso (2021). "Précis of ​Rejecting Retributvism: Free Will, Punishment, and Criminal Justice," Journal of Legal Philosophy 46(2): 120-125.


Gregg D. Caruso (2021). "On the Compatibility of Rational Deliberation and Determinism: Why Deterministic Manipulation is Not a Counterexample." Philosophical Quarterly 71(3); 524-543.


​Brian D. Earp , Jonathan Lewis , Carl L. Hart & with Bioethicists and Allied Professionals for Drug Policy Reform (2021): "Racial Justice Requires Ending the War on Drugs," The American Journal of Bioethics 21(4): 4-19. 


Gregg D. Caruso and Derk Pereboom (2020). "A Non-Punitive Alternative to Punishment," in ​Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy and Science of Punishment, eds. Farah Focquaert, Bruce Waller, and Elizabeth Shaw. New York: Routledge. [Italian translation republished in Diritto Penale e Uomo 2021: 1-18 (translation by Susanna Arcieri)]


Gregg D. Caruso (2020). "Buddhism, Free Will, and Punishment: Taking Buddhist Ethics Seriously." Zygon 55(2): 474-96.

  

Gregg D. Caruso (2020). "Justice Without Retribution: An Epistemic Argument Against Retributive Criminal Publishment," Neuroethics ​13(1): 13-28. 


Focquaert, Farah, Gregg D. Caruso, Elizabeth Shaw, and Derk Pereboom. (2020). "Justice Without Retribution: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Stakeholder Views and Practical Implications," Neuroethics ​13(1): 1-3. 


Gregg D. Caruso, Elizabeth Shaw, and Derk Pereboom (2019). "Free Will Skepticism in Law and Society: An Overview," in ​Free Will Skepticism in Law and Society: Challenging Retributive Justice, (eds.) Elizabeth Shaw, Derk Pereboom, and Gregg D. Caruso, pp.1-26. New York: Cambridge University Press.  


​Gregg D. Caruso (2019). "A Defense of the Luck Pincer: Why Luck (Still) Undermines Moral Responsibility," Journal of Information Ethics, 28(1): 51-72. [Special issue on the future of moral responsibility] 

Gregg D. Caruso (2019). "Free Will Skepticism and Its Implications: An Argument for Optimism," in Free Will Skepticism in Law and Society: Challenging Retributive Justice, (eds.) Elizabeth Shaw, Derk Pereboom, and Gregg D. Caruso, pp.43-72. New York: Cambridge University Press. 


Gregg D. Caruso (2018). "Consciousness, Free Will, and Moral Responsibility," in The Routledge Handbook of Consciousness, ed. Rocco J. Gennaro, pp.78-91. London: Routledge.

 

Gregg D. Caruso (2018). "Skepticism about Moral Responsibility," Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. [Web link]


Derk Pereboom & Gregg D. Caruso (2018). "Hard-Incompatibilist Existentialism: Neuroscience, Punishment, and Meaning in Life," in Neuroexistentialism: Meaning, Morals, and Purpose in the Age of Neuroscience, eds. Gregg D. Caruso and Owen Flanagan, pp.193-222. New York: Oxford University Press. 

Owen Flanagan & Gregg D. Caruso (2018). "Neuroexistentialism: Third-Wave Existentialism" in Neuroexistentialism: Meaning, Morals, and Purpose in the Age of Neuroscience, eds. Gregg D. Caruso and Owen Flanagan, pp.1-22. New York: Oxford University Press.

 

Gregg D. Caruso (2018). "Origination, Moral Responsibility, and Life-Hopes: Ted Honderich on Determinism and Freedom" in Ted Honderich on Consciousness, Determinism, and Humanity, ed. Gregg D. Caruso, pp.195-216. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 

 

Earp, Brian D., Jim A.C. Everett, Thomas Nadelhoffer, Gregg D. Caruso, Azim Shariff, and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (2018). "Determined to Be Humble? Exploring the Relationship Between Belief in Free Will and Humility." PsyArXiv 


Gregg D. Caruso and Stephen G. Morris (2017). "Compatibilism and Retributive Desert Moral Responsibility: On What is of Central Philosophical and Practical Importance" ​Erkenntnis. DOI 10.1007/s10670-016-9846-2. 

Gregg D. Caruso (2017). "Free Will Skepticism and the Question of Creativity: Creativity, Desert, and Self-Creation." Ergo 3 (23): 591-607. 


Gregg D. Caruso (2016). "Free Will Skepticism and Criminal Behavior: A Public Health-Quarantine Model," Southwest Philosophy Review 32 (1). [Presidential Address to the Southwestern Philosophical Society, 2016] 

Gregg D. Caruso (2015). "Free Will Eliminativism: Reference, Error, and Phenomenology," Philosophical Studies 172 (10): 2823-2833.

Gregg D. Caruso (2015). "If consciousness is necessary for moral responsibility, then people are less responsible than we think," Journal of Consciousness Studies 22 (7-8): 49-60. 

Gregg D. Caruso (2015). "Precis of Neil Levy's Consciousness and Moral Responsibility," Journal of Consciousness Studies 22 (7-8): 7-15. 

Gregg D. Caruso (2014). "Precis of Derk Pereboom's Free Will, Agency, and Meaning in Life," Science, Religion and Culture 1 (3): 178-201. [Part of a book symposium w/Derk Pereboom, John M. Fischer, and Dana Nelkin] 

Gregg D. Caruso (2014). "(Un)just Deserts: The Dark Side of Moral Responsibility," Southwest Philosophy Review 30 (1): 27-38. 

Gregg D. Caruso (2011). “Compatibilism and the Folk Psychology of Free Will,” in An Anthology of Philosophical Studies, Vol. V, ed. Patricia Hanna, Athens, Greece: ATINER: 215-226.

Gregg D. Caruso (2008). “Consciousness and Free Will: A Critique of the Argument from Introspection,” Southwest Philosophy Review 24, 1 (January): 219-231.  

Gregg D. Caruso (2007). “Realism, Naturalism, and Pragmatism: A Closer Look at the Views of Quine and Devitt,” Kriterion: Journal of Philosophy 21: 64-83.

Gregg D. Caruso (2005). “Sensory States, Consciousness, and the Cartesian Assumption,” in Descartes and Cartesianism, eds. Nathan Smith and Jason Taylor, Cambridge Scholars Press: 177-199.

 

Reviews:
"A Review of Bruce Waller's Restorative Free Will," Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2016). 

“A Review of David Cockburn’s An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind,” Metapsychology 6, 26 (2002).

“A Review of Nicholas Humphrey’s How to Solve the Mind-Body Problem,” Philosophical Writings 18, Autumn (2001): 51-53. Reprinted in Metapsychology 5, 46 (2001).

Other:

Gregg D. Caruso (2021). "Rejecting Retributivism: Reply to Leo Zaibert." The Philosopher​ 109(4). 


Gregg D. Caruso (2020). On Purpose [Lengthy Interview]. New Philosopher​. Aug-Oct. Issue. 


Christian List, Gregg D. Caruso, and Cory Clark (2020). Free Will: Real or Illusion? A Debate. ​The Philosopher 108(1). 


Daniel C. Dennett and Gregg D. Caruso (2018). "Just Deserts: Can we be morally responsible for our actions? Yes, says Daniel Dennett, No, says Gregg Caruso." Aeon, October 4, 2018. 


Owen Flanagan and Gregg D. Caruso (2018). "Neuroexistentialism: Owen Flanagan and Gregg D. Caruso on a new search for meaning," The Philosopher's Magazine, Issue 83. 


Gregg D. Caruso and Owen Flanagan (2018). "Preface," in Neuroexistentialism: Meaning, Morals, and Purpose in the Age of Neuroscience. New York: Oxford University Press. 


Gregg D. Caruso (2017). "Moral Responsibility and the Strike Back Emotion," Syndicate Philosophy, Feb 19, 2017.


Gregg D. Caruso (2017). "The American Law Institute Revises the Model Penal Code," Psychology Today. ​May 26. 

 

Gregg D. Caruso (2016). "Arrested Development," RSA Journal, Issue 2 (2016): 42-46. 


Gregg D. Caruso (2016). "Why Prisoners and Ex-Felons Should Retain the Right to Vote,” Psychology Today. November 6. 


Gregg D. Caruso (2016). "Moral Responsibility and the Strike Back Emotion: Where does the belief in moral responsibility come from?" Psychology Today, February 21.  


Gregg D. Caruso (2015). "Kane is Not Able: A Reply to Vicens' 'Self-Forming Actions and Conflicts of Intention'," Southwest Philosophy Review 31 (2).


Gregg D. Caruso (2015). "Justice Without Retribution: Retributivism, Mass Incarceration, and Free Will Skepticism," Psychology Today, December 14.


Gregg D. Caruso (2015). "Neuroscientific Prediction and Free Will," Psychology Today, October, 26, 2015. 


Gregg D. Caruso (2015). "Does Disbelief in Free Will Increase Anti-Social Behavior?" Psychology Today, October 16, 2015. 

 

Gregg D. Caruso (2014). "Science, Religion and Culture: New Beginnings," Science, Religion and Culture 1(1): 1-2. 

Gregg D. Caruso (2014). "Preface" and "Introduction" in Science and Religion: 5 Questions, ed. Gregg D. Caruso, New York: Automatic Press/VIP.


Gregg D. Caruso (2013). “Introduction: Exploring the Illusion of Free Will and Moral Responsibility,” in Exploring the Illusion of Free Will and Moral Responsibility, ed. Gregg D. Caruso, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books: 1-16.