Gregg D Caruso

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Philosopher and Director of the Patrick J. Waide Center for Applied Ethics at Fairfield University | Free Will, Moral Responsibility, Punishment, Phil of Law, Phil Mind, Applied Ethics, Social-Political, Neurolaw, etc.

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National Research Act at 50: An Ethics Landmark in Need of an Update | www.thehastingscenter.org/national-res...

National Research Act at 50: An Ethics Landmark in Need of an Updatewww.thehastingscenter.org The National Research Act was a landmark in research ethics oversight. But it needs to be updated for modern times, including research with biospecimens, AI, and xenotransplantation.

My new office at Fairfield University!

Poverty and Blame by Jeanette Kennett | gavindavidyounglectures.au/index.php/gd...

Poverty and Blame | Gavin David Young Lectures in Philosophy gavindavidyounglectures.au The Gavin David Young Lectures in Philosophy is a peer-reviewed online open access journal. It is devoted to publishing articles based on lectures given in the series of the same name at the Departmen...

Where Should Moral Philosophy Begin? (By Avram Hiller) dailynous.com/2024/07/10/w...

Where Should Moral Philosophy Begin? (guest post)dailynous.com “In thinking about trolley problems, to what extent have you put yourself in the shoes of the person at the switch… and to what extent have you put yourself into the shoes of those tied to the tracks?...

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Read The Problem with Prisons, an ETHICS Review Essay by Erin I. Kelly, an examination of punishment and prisons in society, at: doi.org/10.1086/729714 #philsky #PolTheory #legalphil #moralphil #moralphilosophy #legalphilosophy

The Problem with Prisons* | Ethics: Vol 134, No 4doi.org

The move has destroyed my productivity! I haven’t been able to get any work done for at least two months. I need to get writing again.

A landscape of consciousness: Toward a taxonomy of explanations and implications | by Robert Kuhn | #OpenAccess | www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A landscape of consciousness: Toward a taxonomy of explanations and implicationswww.sciencedirect.com Diverse explanations or theories of consciousness are arrayed on a roughly physicalist-to-nonphysicalist landscape of essences and mechanisms. Categor…

What Would Equitable Harm Reduction Look Like? “Structural determinants of health frameworks must be person-centered and express antiracism to be effective.” journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/what...

What Would Equitable Harm Reduction Look Like?journalofethics.ama-assn.org Structural determinants of health frameworks must be person centered and express antiracism to be effective.

Preventing bad behavior in academia. “We gave young scientists this prompt: Describe one change to scientific policy or culture that would substantially decrease incidents of scientific misconduct or other unethical behavior.” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Preventing bad behavior in academiawww.science.org We gave young scientists this prompt: Describe one change to scientific policy or culture that would substantially decrease incidents of scientific misconduct or other unethical behavior.

“With fear for our democracy, I dissent.” Read Justice Sotomayor’s full dissent here: www.documentcloud.org/documents/24...

DocumentCloudwww.documentcloud.org

One room down!

Moving day is here.

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Florida is indeed pushing the envelope ... and taking the position that faculty speech in the classroom at a public university is under the control of the state government: leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2024/06...

The end of academic freedom in Florida? The courts will decideleiterreports.typepad.com As I feared, Florida is indeed pushing the envelope on Garcetti and taking the position that faculty speech in the classroom at a public university is under the control of the state government: Last F...

Happy to receive this special issue of The Harvard Review of Philosophy on free will!

Just received my @SUNY Distinguished Professor certificate in the mail. Honored.

Packing for the move and found a few great philosophy-related photos!

Time is relative, so they say…but what will that mean when I’m old and gray

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Gregg Caruso on the Waide Center for Applied Ethics | An interview with our new incoming Director | apablog.substack.com/p/gregg-caru...

Gregg Caruso on the Waide Center for Applied Ethicsapablog.substack.com APA Substack Newsletter: Public Philosophy Digest

Thank you to the APA for interviewing me about my new position as Director of the Patrick J. Waide Center for Applied Ethics at Fairfield University. The interview is also part of an ongoing dialogue in Philosophy and Technology series. apablog.substack.com/p/gregg-caru...

Gregg Caruso on the Waide Center for Applied Ethicsapablog.substack.com APA Substack Newsletter: Public Philosophy Digest

Puzzling Beliefs: Why Do Many Americans Mistrust Science? by Paul Boghossian link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...

Puzzling Beliefs: Why Do Many Americans Mistrust Science?link.springer.com

Debating ChatGPT on Whether or Not Everything Comes Down to Luck | by Theodore Bolha | This is great! medium.com/@Atheistspla...

Debating ChatGPT on Whether or Not Everything Comes Down to Luckmedium.com **Me:** Please explain to me why everything doesn’t come down to luck. Then I’m going to attempt to convince you that it does. **ChatGPT:** Not everything comes down to luck because factors like…

Pamela Hieronymi on Harry Frankfurt’s “The Importance of What We Care About” peasoupblog.com/2024/05/pame...

Pamela Hieronymi on Harry Frankfurt’s “The Importance of What We Care About”peasoupblog.com By Pamela Hieronymi Today, Harry Frankfurt would have turned 95. We lost him last year, a couple of months after his 94th birthday. It would be hard to underestimate the impact he made on my career…

“new study reports 96% of the data collected in a mock survey on MTurk made no sense, with participants agreeing equally with contradictory statements such as “I like order” and “I crave chaos.” www.science.org/content/arti...

Psychology study participants recruited online may provide nonsensical answerswww.science.org Data quality suffers in some studies using the MTurk platform—but participant screening and other safeguards can help

Why AI Needs Aristotle: The Lyceum Project by Josiah Ober and John Tasioulas (@JTasioulas) | www.oxford-aiethics.ox.ac.uk/blog/why-ai-...

Why AI Needs Aristotle: The Lyceum Project | Ethics in AIUp arrowwww.oxford-aiethics.ox.ac.uk

Kieran Setiya on David Shoemaker’s new book, Wisecracks. www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...

Go Ahead and Make Fun of Your Friendswww.theatlantic.com It’s good for both of you.

Oreo just chillin’

Free will, quarantines, and moral enhancements: neuroabolitionism as an alternative to criminal law | by Diego Borbón | Looking forward to reading this! www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

Free will, quarantines, and moral enhancements: neuroabolitionism as an alternative to criminal lawwww.frontiersin.org This article critically navigates the complex debate surrounding free will and criminal justice, challenging traditional assumptions of moral responsibility and culpability. By exploring hard incompat...

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How 3M Discovered, Then Concealed, the Dangers of Forever Chemicals | The company found its own toxic compounds in human blood—and kept selling them. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

How 3M Discovered, Then Concealed, the Dangers of Forever Chemicalswww.newyorker.com The company found its own toxic compounds in human blood—and kept selling them.

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Survey of 380 climate scientists finds 80% predict at least 2.5C rise in global temperature causing heatwaves, wildfires, floods, storms, and major societal disruption. www.theguardian.com/environment/... 🧪

Grades submitted. Office cleaned out. Bittersweet.