Virtual Learning

Engineering Ethics: Managing Cognitive Bias and Fallacious Reasoning

• Mar 15, 2023
  Virtual Learning (desktop/laptop and mobile devices)

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Description

Ethics provide accountability between the public and the administration. Adhering to a code of ethics ensures that the public receives what it needs in a fair manner. Integrity helps foster the trust of the community. This presentation will discuss:

• Ethics in general
• Separation of ethics and personal beliefs
• Cognitive biases, and
• Avoiding fallacies

Speaker(s)

Dr. Dennis Cooley is Professor of Philosophy and Ethics and Director of the Northern Plains Ethics Institute at NDSU. Cooley received his 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 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.

Target Audience

Although this title is Engineering Ethics; ethics applies to everyone. This presentation will be beneficial to all.