Dr. Dennis Cooley

Associate Professor

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Telephone: 701-231-7038

Dennis R. Cooley (Ph.D. 1995, University of Rochester: Which Consequences Count in Consequentialism?) Re-Adjusting Utility for Justice (Journal of Philosophical Research, 2000); Good Enough for the Third World (The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 2000); Distributive Justice and Clinical Trials in the Third World (Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, 2001); False Friends (The Journal of Business Ethics, 2002); So Who's Afraid of Frankenstein Foods? (Journal of Social Philosophy); Stem Cell Research and Nazi Experiments (Biomedical Ethics Reviews); Introduction to Medical Research Ethics issue of Essays in Philosophy , 2003; Responsible Conduct of Research (Essays in Philosophy, 2003); Nazi Experiments and Stem Cell Research (Stem Cell Research, 2003); Strict Joint and Several Liability and Justice (Journal of Business Ethics, 2003); Transgenic Organisms and Some Legal Ethics ( Public Affairs Quarterly , 2004); The Moral Paradigm Test (Journal of Business Ethics, 2004); Are Transgenic Organisms Unnatural? (Ethics & The Environment, 2004); Practical Moral Codes in the Transgenic Organism Debate ( Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, 2004); Transgenic Organisms and the Failure of a Free Market Argument (Business Ethics: A European Review, 2004); Crimina Carnis and Morally Obligatory Suicide (Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 2006); Hospitality Industry Smoking Bans and Child Endangerment (Business and Professional Ethics Journal, 2006); Transgenic Organisms, the European Union, and the World Trade Organization presented at 2005 Japha Symposium for Business and Professional Ethics, Boulder, Colorado, November, 2005 (The Ethics of Genetic Commerce, Robert Kolb, editor (Blackwell Publishing, 2007)); Deaf by Design: A Business Argument Against Engineering Disabled Offspring, (Journal of Business Ethics, 2006); A Kantian Moral Duty for the Soon to Be Demented to Commit Suicide, (The American Journal of Bioethics, 2007); Response to Open Peer Commentaries on 'A Kantian Moral Duty for the Soon to Be Demented to Commit Suicide' (American Journal of Bioethics, 2007); Genetically Modified Organisms and Business Duties in Ethical Theory and Business, 8th edition. Tom L. Beauchamp, Norman E. Bowie, Denis Arnold (editors) 2007; Case Study: Monsanto's Round-Up Ready Wheat in Ethical Theory and Business, 8th edition. Tom L. Beauchamp, Norman E. Bowie, Denis Arnold (editors) 2007; Non-Heterosexuals in Heterosexual Marriages as a Form of Spousal Abuse in International Journal of Applied Philosophy, Fall 2007.

Teaching Awards: 2000, East Carolina University's Phi Sigma Tau's Teacher of the Year.

Honors/Awards: 1990-1991 Rush Rhees Fellowship; 2005 Daryl E. Snyder Alumni Achievement Award for outstanding service to NDSU Farm House Fraternity Chapter; 2005-2006 Outsanding Research & Creativity Award College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Science.

External Grants: 2002, USDA/CSREES/IFAFS, Consortium to Address Social, Economic and Ethical Aspects of Biotechnology.

Professional Service: 2002-2003, Medical Research Issue Editor and Book Reviewer for 1 June 2003 issue of Essays in Philosophy; 2001-2002, Reviewer for the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy; 2000-2002, Assistant Director of the Center for Liberal Arts at East Carolina University; 1997, Reviewer for the American Philosophy of Education Eastern APA Meeting; 1995-Present, American Philosophical Association; Reviewer for Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, 2006-Present.

University Service: 2002-Present, Institutional Review Board; 2005-2007, Vice-Chair, Institutional Review Board; 2007-Present, Chair, Institutional Review Board; 2003-2005, Faculty Advisor for Phi Alpha Theta; 2003-2005, Faculty Advisor for NDSU History Club; 2002-Present, Associate Director, Northern Plains Ethics Institute; 2003-2006, Faculty Advisor for NDSU Farm House Fraternity; 2005-present, Parliamentarian, University Senate; 2005-present, Science Religion & Lunch Seminar Coordinator; 2005-Present, Greek Life Advisory Board; Guest Lecturer for Emergency Management, Sociology, and Biochemistry; 2007-Present, Departmental Colloquia Committee; 2007- Present, Faculty Mentor.