Dennis Cooley Email & Phone Number

Dr. Dennis Cooley is Professor of Philosophy and Ethics and Director of the Northern Plains Ethics Institute at NDSU. Cooley received Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Rochester in 1995. His teaching and research interests include theoretical and applied ethics with a focus on pragmatism, bioethics, business ethics, personhood, and death and dying. He is the author or editor of five books, including Technology, Transgenics, and a Practical Moral Code (Springer, 2009), Death’s Values and Obligations: A Pragmatic Framework (Springer, 2015), and co-edited Passing/Out: Identity Veiled and Revealed (Ashgate, 2012), and a number of professional ethics articles. Cooley is editor of Springer’s International Library of Bioethics, the NPEI’s Northern Plains Ethics Journal, and former Associate Editor of Elsevier France’s Ethics, Medicine and Public Health. His service to the profession also includes executive board membership on both the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics (APPE) and Humanities ND, as well as serving as co-chair of APPE’s Program Committee. Cooley is the former Secretary General of the International Academy of Medical Ethics and Public Health. Cooley’s 26-year career in education, his profession, as NDSU philosophy program coordinator, and through collaborative, interdisciplinary outreach has taught him how to organize and manage large projects with many different stakeholders. Among former and current activities, Dr. Cooley, the NPEI, and its partner, the YWCA Cass Clay, are completing the Learning the Language of Diversity and Meaningful Inclusion: Moving from Hedgehog Thinking to Fox Engagement project, supported by internal and external grant funding. The project is successfully achieving its three components of a permanent race exhibit open to the public, a speaker series on racisms and the lived experience of marginalized populations, and a set of workshops training university and community members how to facilitate difficult conversations.