SIO231: Gregg Caruso on Free Will and Moral Responsibility
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
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🗓️ 29 February 2020
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
This is a part 1 of 2! We're doubling the number of philosophers on the show this week, with a fantastic guest in Gregg Caruso! He is a professor of philosophy at SUNY Corning in New York, honorary professor of philosophy at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, and visiting researcher at the University of Aberdeen School of Law in Scotland. His latest book is Unjust Deserts: Free Will, Punishment, and Criminal Justice (forthcoming).
He also debated Daniel Dennett on free will in written form on Aeon, which we highly encourage you to check out!
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to serious inquiries only. I'm Thomas Smith. Hello and welcome to Series Inquiries only. This is episode 230. |
| 0:34.0 | I'm Thomas, that's Jamie Lombardi. |
| 0:36.3 | How you doing, Jamie? |
| 0:37.1 | I'm doing all right, Thomas, how about you? |
| 0:39.3 | I'm doing great. |
| 0:40.0 | I'm excited. |
| 0:41.0 | We have a guest this episode, and's going to be taking the lead on this one so why don't you tell everyone who our guest is? |
| 0:47.6 | So our guest today is Greg Caruso. He is a full professor of philosophy at Sunni Corning and the co-director of the Justice Without Retribution network. |
| 0:57.5 | He is the author of too many books to list in their entirety, but a couple of ones just to give you a sense |
| 1:04.9 | there's free will and consciousness determinism and an account of the |
| 1:08.8 | illusion of free will public health and safety as well as a co-edited edition on neuro existentialism |
| 1:15.5 | that he did with Owen Flanagan and forthcoming we're going to be having a book |
| 1:20.7 | by the name of Rejectributivism, free will and punishment and criminal justice. |
| 1:26.8 | Welcome, Greg. |
| 1:28.0 | Yes, thank you for having me. |
| 1:29.5 | Thank you so much for coming on. |
| 1:30.8 | I'm very excited. So I guess just to get us started, our |
| 1:36.2 | audience isn't generally philosophers, so I just want to make sure everybody's on the |
| 1:41.2 | same page and is familiar with the terms that we're going to be throwing around. |
| 1:45.0 | So you describe yourself as a free well skeptic. Can you explain what that means exactly? |
| 1:52.0 | Sure, yeah. |
| 1:52.9 | So as a free will skeptic, I maintain that who we are |
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