Gregg Caruso
@GreggDCaruso
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Philosopher @SUNY Corning, @Macquarie_Uni | Free Will, Moral Responsibility, Punishment, Phil of Law, Phil Mind, Ethics, Social-Political, Neurolaw
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My three most recent books:
(1) Moral Responsibility Reconsidered (co-authored w/Derk Pereboom):
(2) Rejecting Retributivism:
(3) Just Deserts: Debating Free Will (co-authored w/Daniel Dennett):
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I can no longer recycle my jokes, since I have one student that's taking three of my classes this semester. This is causing me stress.
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Anti-homeless architecture is just evil. Imagine going this far to prevent someone from trying to sleep and shelter themselves.
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Philosophers thinking they have provided an ironclad set of necessary and sufficient conditions, free of all counterexamples.
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Daughter: How do I control my hand?
Me: What do you mean?
Daughter: Well, I think about moving it and then I do? How does that happen?
Me: Well, your brain sends signals to your hand...
Daughter: But how does THAT happen? Can you explain that one "philosopher"? (air quotes)
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Exciting news: Dan Dennett and I have agreed to a book debating our respective views on free will, moral responsibility, and criminal punishment—building on our
@aeonmag
exchange. It will be w/
@politybooks
and priced for the mass market. Looking forward to it
@danieldennett
!
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This author’s name is “a priori”—and he’s not even an armchair philosopher, he’s a neuroscientist.
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I just accidentally started off a letter with, “To Hume It May Concern”
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Hot off the press: My debate with Dan Dennett on free will, punishment, and desert, in Aeon magazine. Check it out and share!! |
@danieldennett
,
@aeonmag
|
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Plato: The perfect society would be ruled by philosopher-kings/queens
Skeptic: Have you ever seen philosophers gather in a hotel lobby at a conference trying to figure out where to eat and how to get everyone there?
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Intro to Philosophy is still one of my favorite courses to teach. It's an honor, privilege, and (lets admit it) fun to introduce students to philosophy for the first time. It never gets old!
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I come from a working class, non-academic family. All through graduate school my mother would ask how my “book report” was coming along when referring to my dissertation.
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I love philosophy. All of it. The areas I write about and the areas I don’t. Technical papers and popular pieces. Books written for academics and books written for general audiences. Read it all. Never stop learning from others. And stay curious!
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Nietzsche was wrong. What does not kill you mutates and tries again!
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I'm very excited to announce that I have accepted a position as (full) Professor & Director of the Patrick J. Waide Center for Applied Ethics at Fairfield University! I am looking forward to the new challenge and hope to build the center into a national hub for applied ethics!
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I am briefly quoted in this Los Angels Times article on Robert Sapolsky's new book.
Stanford scientist, after decades of study, concludes: We don’t have free will
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A composite photo of the position and phases of the moon over 28 days, each photo taken at the same exact location each day.
Photo: Giorgia Hofer Photography
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The bookstore I’m in only has four shelves of Philosophy books, and one of them is almost all Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations.
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Daniel Dennett (1942-2024) - Today we lost a giant in the field. RIP Dan!
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The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months | Books | The Guardian
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Remember Dan Dennett: These photos are from a conference in Beirut Lebanon, where (over drinks at a roof-top bar) Dan and I first began debating our respective views on free will, moral responsibility, and punishment. [1/3]
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Enjoying this debate book between Robert Kane (a libertarian) and Carolina Sartorio (a compatibilist). While I disagree with both, the book is well done and provides a good introduction to many of the core issues.
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Currently reading Robert Sapolsky's new book--Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will--and am really enjoying it. He discusses my work throughout and at the end of the book endorses the public health-quarantine model developed by me and Pereboom.
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Neuroscientists have reexamined hundreds of contradictory experiments on the connection between neural activity and consciousness. The surprising conclusion: The nature of the experiment largely determines its result. Via
@SelfAwarePatter
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Beginning my Rawls lecture today with a brief discussion of wealth inequality. These numbers are insane!
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The Dark Side of Free Will (TEDx talk) | Free Will & Punishment (Philosophy Bites interview)
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The militarization of police is nicely documented through the history of Legos.
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Percentage of population vaccinated / Deaths per 1 million (Europe)
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The militarization of police nicely documented though the history of kids toys.
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Kant: “If all birds flew on the back of other birds, there would be no birds to fly on the back of. Since this 👇 bird’s actions cannot be universalized, what they are doing is morally wrong (but also very, very cool).”
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Was just offered a contract by Cambridge University Press for my next book--How To Live Well Without Free Will! I am very excited.
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If you haven’t read this book, you should. It’s really good!
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“I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.” -Baruch Spinoza
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Did you know that in 1995 Iggy Pop reviewed Edward Gibbon’s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire for peer-reviewed academic journal Classics Ireland?
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I love that every photo online today is a “where's Waldo?” of Bernie Sanders in mittens.
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My daughter was reprimanding me this morning for not remembering certain dates and facts. I had to remind her of this Einstein quote.
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One time in Athens, walking back to my hotel late at night, a police officer stopped me and asked why I was in Athens. I said: “I’m here for a philosophy conference.” He said: “Prove it.” So I ran the Euthyphro Dilemma on him. He wasn’t amused.
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Look what just arrived in the mail! They exist!
@danieldennett
and
@GreggDCaruso
debating free will
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I have nothing but respect for my fellow philosophers on twitter. People often focus on the negative but almost daily I walk away from my feed thinking: “So many people working on so many cool, important, and interesting things. I wish I had ten lifetimes to read it all!”
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Look what arrived in the mail today!! Run out and get your copy now!
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Has anyone ever discussed qualia as a reason to live?
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Principle of Intellectual Humility: For every X, there is someone who knows more about X than you, and from whom you can learn a lot. Hence, if you’re interested in X, find that person(s) and talk/read/listen and learn from them. I’ve benefited greatly by doing this!
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Just received the cover art for Rejecting Retributivism. I am very pleased with it! I wanted something optimistic and hopeful, not prison bars or barbed wire.
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Glad to see this: Pope Francis has changed the teachings of the Catholic faith to officially oppose the death penalty in all circumstances
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I am honored and humbled that my book Rejecting Retributivism: Free Will, Punishment, & Criminal Justice, received the Joseph B. Gittler Award for outstanding scholarly contribution in the philosophy of one or more of the social sciences at the
#PacificAPA23
today!
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Birds are more like ‘feathered apes’ than ‘bird brains’ | For centuries scientists dismissed birds as dumb based on physical differences in their brains. How wrong we were.
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Some people thought my recent debate with
@danieldennett
was actually a debate between Stanley Tucci and David Letterman. I can understand the confusion 😎 [BTW, I would love to see that debate!]
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Here is my TEDx talk on The Dark Side of Free Will. Enjoy and share!
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Psychedelics alter metaphysical beliefs | “Results revealed significant shifts away from ‘physicalist’ or ‘materialist’ views, and towards panpsychism and fatalism, post use.” |
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I'm very excited to share my Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on "Skepticism about Moral Responsibility.
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I'm very excited to say that Dan Dennett and I just completed a rough draft of our debate book *Just Deserts: Debating Free Will*! It's longer than we both anticipated, but it covers a lot of ground. We are hoping to send it off to the publisher next week. Thanks
@danieldennett
!
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Is this guy wearing white jeans and heels or is your mind playing tricks on you?! See if you can see it both ways—i.e., the guy sitting and standing.
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Just 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions, study says | RT
@giuli_cavaliere
| The Guardian
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Hard to believe it's been nearly a year since my
@aeonmag
exchange with
@danieldennett
| Just deserts: Can we be held morally responsible for our actions? Yes, says Daniel Dennett. No, says Gregg Caruso
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Daniel C. Dennett and Gregg D. Caruso’s *Just Deserts: Debating Free Will* | “A sharp, entertaining, and accessible debate about free will, responsibility, punishment, morality, and choice.”
UK (Jan release):
US (Feb release):
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Look what came in the mail tonight—the new Oxford Handbook of Moral Responsibility. Congratulations to Derk Pereboom and Dana Nelkin! What an amazing lineup of authors and articles. Honored to be included.
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Out now—my two new book:
Rejecting Retributivism: Free Will, Punishment, and Criminal Justice
Just Deserts: Debating Free Will (w/Daniel Dennett)
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People Born Blind Are Mysteriously Protected From Schizophrenia | The possible explanations could help us better understand the condition.
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After reading this sentence you will realize that the the brain doesn’t recognize a second ‘the’. [Why I never catch my own typos.]
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I am honored and humbled to have received the APA's Joseph B. Gittler Award for "outstanding scholarly contribution in the field of the philosophy of one or more of the social sciences" for my book Rejecting Retributivism (
@CUP_Law
@CambUP_PHILNYUK
) |
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We need to reject a reactive approach to criminal justice that myopically focuses on punishment and retribution, and replace it w/a public health approach grounded in
#SocialJustice
that identifies and addresses the social determinants of health and criminal behavior
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Just received the cover art for the Neuroexistentialism book!
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Congratulations to Roger Penrose for being awarded the Noble Prize in physics for his work on black holes. But it doesn't make his quantum theory of consciousness any more plausible.
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How the Dutch Are Closing Their Prisons | The number of prisoners in the country has halved in a decade and experts say alternative sentencing programs can further decrease the number |
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Just received a review report that recommended a revise and resubmit because I didn't properly cite the work of Gregg Caruso. I wholeheartedly agree that the paper needs more references to Caruso!
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The virtue ethics literature is obsession with the Judeo-Christian virtues. Almost myopically so. You know, there are other, non-western, virtue traditions!?
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Which direction is the train going? Keep looking. Nice illusion.
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NEW BOOK: I’m excited to share my new co-authored book with Derk Pereboom—Moral Responsibility Reconsidered. It is short, concise, and (best of all) FREE for the next two weeks! Download a free copy now while it’s still
#OpenAccess
. Please share and RT:
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Some current reading material as I work on my Neurolaw book.
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Just received the page proofs of Just Deserts: Debating Free Will | by
@danieldennett
and
@GreggDCaruso
| new book with
@politybooks
out in 2021 |
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With 2020 winding down, I cannot wait for my two new books to land in 2021! Just Deserts in Jan(UK)/Feb(US) and Rejecting Retributivism in April.
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Plagerism is using the words or ideas of another person without proper acknowledgement.
Current AI chatbots (like ChatGPT) are not persons.
Hence, using words generated by an AI chatbot is not plagiarism.
(Agree? Disagree? Or reveals we need to revise our def of plagiarism?)
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Proportional pie chart of the world's most spoken languages.
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It's off to the printers! Final book cover for Neuroexistentialism--with endorsements from
@theamygdaloid
,
@mocost
, Robert Sapolsky, and John Heil.
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Coming on Oct. 8: Daniel Dennett and I debate our respective views on free will, punishment, and desert in
@aeonmag
. Will share once its available!
@aeonmag
,
@danieldennett
,
@philosophybites
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I purchased the original art from my
@aeonmag
piece with
@danieldennett
| Now framed and handing on my wall!
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What would we think of the philosophical giants of the past if they had social media accounts? Can you imagine Kant and Hume going at it on twitter. Or the outrageous things Nietzsche would be posting. On the whole, we would probably think less of them. Something to consider.
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I'm still cautiously optimistic for a Biden win. But whoever wins at this point, we did not get the overwhelming repudiation of Trump that the world needed. There is a lot of work to be done to heal this broken nation.
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