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S. Matthew Liao | |
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| Born | 1972 (age 51–52) |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Princeton University (BA) University of Oxford (DPhil) |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic |
| Thesis | The right of children to be loved (2001) |
Main interests | Bioethics; Normative Ethics; Political Philosophy; Epistemology; Moral Psychology; Metaphysics |
S. Matthew Liao (born 1972) is a Taiwanese-American philosopher specializing in bioethics and normative ethics. Liao currently holds the Arthur Zitrin Chair of Bioethics,[1] and is the Director of the Center for Bioethics and Affiliated Professor in the Department of Philosophy at New York University.[2] He has previously held appointments at Oxford, Johns Hopkins, Georgetown, and Princeton.
In addition to his many publications, Liao has written one book, The Right to Be Loved, and edited or co-edited four others. Their titles are: Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights (2015),[3] Moral Brains: The Neuroscience of Morality (2016),[4] Current Controversies in Bioethics (2017),[5] and Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (2020).[6] He is currently writing an upcoming popular press book that analyzes the ethical dilemmas posed by near-term neurotechnologies.
Liao is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Moral Philosophy[7] and, in 2019, he was appointed as an Elected Fellow at The Hastings Center.[8]
- ^ "NYU Center for Bioethics". NYU Center for Bioethics. 2016. Retrieved 2017-06-05.
- ^ "Liao, S. Matthew | Philosophy | New York University". philosophy.fas.nyu.edu. Retrieved 2017-06-05.
- ^ Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights. Philosophical Foundations of Law. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. 2015. ISBN 978-0-19-968863-0.
- ^ Moral Brains: The Neuroscience of Morality. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. 2016-09-12. ISBN 9780199357673.
- ^ Liao, S. Matthew; O'Neil, Collin (2017). Current Controversies in Bioethics. Routledge. Retrieved 2017-06-05.
- ^ Liao, S. Matthew (2020). Ethics of Artificial Intelligence. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-090503-3.
- ^ "Journal of Moral Philosophy | Brill". www.brill.com. Retrieved 2017-06-05.
- ^ "Fellows". The Hastings Center. 2021. Retrieved 2021-06-10.