Gregg Caruso

Title: Assistant Professor Gregg Caruso
Division: Communications and Humanities
Department: Humanities
Office Location: C201D
Email: gcaruso@corning-cc.edu
Office Phone: (607) 962-9519

Classes Taught

  • PHIL 1010: Introduction to Philosophy
  • PHIL 2010: Introduction to Ethics
  • PHIL 2070: Contemporary Philosophy
  • PHIL 2200: Environmental Ethics
  • PHIL 2250: Health Care Ethics
  • PHIL 2420: Social & Political Philosophy
  • PHIL 2360: Philosophy of the Arts

Education

2011

Ph.D., Philosophy
City University of New York, Graduate School and University Center

2002

M.Phil., Philosophy
City University of New York, Graduate School and University Center

1996

B.A., Philosophy; Magna Cum Laude
William Paterson University

1995

A.A.S., Music; Cum Laude
Nassau Community College

Honors & Awards

2006-2007

Award of Excellence: Awarded by the Faculty Assembly of Corning Community College on May 24, 2007 for outstanding service by a new faculty member.

2003-2005

Writing Fellowship, John Jay College of Criminal Justice [Two-year Fellowship]

2000-2003

Graduate Teaching Fellowship, Brooklyn College [Three-year Fellowship]

Professional Organizations

  • American Philosophical Society
  • Southwestern Philosophical Society

Publications

Books

Free Will and Consciousness: A Determinist Account of the Illusion of Free Will. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield, (Under contract, forthcoming).

Articles and Book Chapters

“Compatibilism and the Folk Psychology of Free Will,” in An Anthology of Philosophical Studies, Vol. V, ed. Patricia Hanna, Athens, Greece: ATINER, 2011.

“The Folk Psychology of Free Will: An Argument against Compatibilism,” Kriterion: Journal of Philosophy, 26, 2011: 1-32. 

“Consciousness and Free Will: A Critique of the Argument from Introspection,” Southwest Philosophy Review, Volume 24, number 1, January 2008: 219-231. 

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

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

“A Defense of the Adverbial Theory,” Philosophical Writings, Issue 10, Spring 1999: 51-65.

Reviews

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

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

Other

Co-author (with David M. Rosenthal), “Bibliography 1971-2000,” in Materialism and the Mind-Body Problem, revised edition, ed. David M. Rosenthal, Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Co., 2000.

Professional and Community Service

Board of Directors, The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes (2008–present)

Assessing Editor, The Journal of Mind and Behavior (2011-present)

Referee/Reviewer, The Southwestern Philosophical Society (2011)