​Authored Books:

Caruso, Gregg D. (forthcoming). Ethical Business for the 21st Century: The Moral Foundations of Corporate Purpose​. Bloomsbury. 

Caruso, Gregg D. (2026). How to Live Well Without Free Will. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Caruso, Gregg D. (2024). Neurolaw. New York: Cambridge University Press.

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

Caruso, Gregg D. (2021).Rejecting Retributivism: Free Will, Punishment, and Criminal Justice. New York: Cambridge University Press. [Winner of the APA’s 2022 Joseph B. Gittler Award]

Dennett, Daniel, 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.

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

Edited Collections:

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

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

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

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

Caruso, Gregg D. (ed.) (2013). Exploring the Illusion of Free Will and Moral Responsibility. Lanham, 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.​​

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                                Journal Articles and Book Chapters:                                     

Gregg D. Caruso and Eric Peterson. (under review). "Dark Patterns and the Ethics of Digital Design: Manipulation, Autonomy, and a Normative Framework for Responsible Interfaces." Business Ethics Quarterly.

Gregg D. Caruso. (under review). "Will AI Bring the End of Property?" Ethics and Information Technology.​

Pragya Mishra and Gregg D. Caruso. (under review). "Moral Injury, Free Will Skepticism, and Contemplative Restoration: Toward a Non-retributive Framework for Justice-Related Moral Harm."

Alan C. Logan, Pragya Mishra, Colleen M. Berryessa, Gregg D. Caruso, Fiona A. Hagenbeek, Thomas F. Denson, and Susan L. Prescott. (2026). "Challenging the Prescientific Framework of Criminal Justice: Neurobiology and Criminolytic Interventions in the Legalome Era." Frontiers in Psychology 17: 1-14. 

Elizabeth Shaw, and Gregg D. Caruso. (2026). "Neuro-Prediction: The Future of Crime Prevention or Fostering Injustice?" in Neuroscience in Criminal Justice Systems: The Positive Impact of Neurojustice, eds. Hannah Wishart and Colleen Berryessa. London: Routledge. 

Alan C. Logan, Gregg D. Caruso, and Susan L. Prescott. (2025). "The Bell Tolls for Folk Psychology: Are Societies Ready for a Public Health Quarantine Model of Criminal Justice?" Societies 15(11): 1-21.

Alan C. Logon, Colleen M. Berryessa, John S. Callender, Gregg D. Caruso, Fiona A. Hagenbeek, Pragya Mishra, and Susan L. Prescott. (2025). "The Land that Time Forgot? Planetary Health and the Criminal Justice System." Challenges 16(2), 29: 1-27.

Gregg D. Caruso. (2025). "Event-Causal Libertarianism, Indeterministic Weightings, and the Pragmatic Approach." Philosophia 53: 925-938.

Gregg D. Caruso (2024). “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 (2023). “Why we should reject semiretributivism and be skeptics about basic desert moral responsibility: A reply to John Martin Fischer.”Harvard Review of Philosophy ​30: 63-93.

Gregg D. Caruso (2023). “Preemptive Incapacitation, Victim’s Rights, Desert, and Respect for Persons: Replies to McCormick and Donelson.”Journal of Practical Ethics 10(3): 29-56.

Gregg D. Caruso (2023). “Rejecting Retributivism: Free Will, Punishment, and Criminal Justice: A precis.”Journal of Practical Ethics 10(3): 1-10]

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 on 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): 161-216.

Gregg D. Caruso (2021). “Precis of Rejecting Retributivism: 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.

Earp, Brian D., Jonathan Lewis, Carl L. Heart, with Bioethicists and Allied Professionals for Drug Policy Reform. (2021). “Racial Justice Requires Drug Policy Overhaul: Bioethicists and Others Against the War on Drugs.”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, pp.355-365. 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): 474-496.

Gregg D. Caruso (2020). “Justice Without Retribution: An Epistemic Argument against Retributive Criminal Punishment,”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, ed. 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. 

Gregg D. Caruso (2019). “Free Will Skepticism and Its Implications: An Argument for Optimism,” in Free Will Skepticism in Law and Society, ed. 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: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/skepticism-moral-responsibility/

Derk Pereboom and 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 and 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.

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 Available at: https://psyarxiv.com/3bxra  

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: https://aeon.co/essays/on-free-will-daniel-dennett-and-gregg-caruso-go-head-to-head

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.

Gregg D. Caruso and Stephen G. Morris (2017). “Compatibilism and Retributive Desert Moral Responsibility: On What Is of Central Philosophical and Practical Importance.”Erkenntnis 82: 837-855.

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): 25-48. [Presidential Address to the Southwestern Philosophical Society.]

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). “Précis of Neil Levy’s Consciousness and Moral Responsibility,”Journal of Consciousness Studies 22 (7-8): 7-15.

Gregg D. Caruso (2014). “Précis 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 Martin Fisher, 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 (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.

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: 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.

Book Reviews:

Gregg D. Caruso (2016). “Review of Bruce Waller’s Restorative Free Will,”Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.

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

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

Other:

Gregg D. Caruso. (2026). "Morality is motivated by getting revenge: The hypocrisy at the heart of our justice system." IAI News. April 17, 2026. 

Gregg D. Caruso. (2025). "Aristotle would scoff at Mark Zuckerberg's suggestion that AI can solve the loneliness epidemic," The Conversation. May 21, 2025. 

Gregg D. Caruso. (2021). “Rejecting Retributivism: Reply to Leo Zaibert.” The Philosopher.

Gregg D. Caruso. (2020). “Abolishing the Cash Bail System.”Arc Digital. October 2020.

Gregg D. Caruso. (2020). “On Purpose.”New Philosopher. Aug-Oct Issue. [Lengthy interview.]

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

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, ed. Gregg D. Caruso and Owen Flanagan, New York: Oxford University Press.  

Gregg D. Caruso (2017). “Moral Responsibility and the Strike Back Emotion: Comments on Bruce Waller’s The Stubborn System of Moral Responsibility.”Syndicate Philosophy, 2/19/17.

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 (Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce), Issue 2: 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): 21-26.

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.

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

Gregg D. Caruso (2014). “Science, Religion and Culture: New Beginnings,” Science, Religion & Culture 1(1): 1-3.

Gregg D. Caruso (2014). “Preface” and “Introduction” in Science and Religion: 5 Questions, ed. Gregg D. Caruso, London: Automatic Press/VIP

Gregg D. Caruso (2014). “Free Will Skepticism and Its Implications: An Argument for Optimism (Parts I & II),” Scientia Salon, December 22-23.