S. Matthew Liao

rdf:langString S. Matthew Liao

rdf:langString S. Matthew Liao

rdf:langString S. Matthew Liao

rdf:langString Bioethics; Normative Ethics; Political Philosophy; Epistemology; Moral Psychology; Metaphysics

rdf:langString American

rdf:langString S. Matthew Liao (born 1972) is an American philosopher specializing in bioethics and normative ethics. He is internationally known for his work on topics including children’s rights and human rights, novel reproductive technologies, neuroethics, and the ethics of artificial intelligence. Liao currently holds the Arthur Zitrin Chair of Bioethics, and is the Director of the Center for Bioethics and Affiliated Professor in the Department of Philosophy at New York University. 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), Moral Brains: The Neuroscience of Morality (2016), Current Controversies in Bioethics (2017), and Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (2020). 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 and, in 2019, he was appointed as an Elected Fellow at The Hastings Center, a prestigious bioethics research institute. Liao's work has been discussed in, among other places, The Guardian, the BBC, The New York Times, The Atlantic, and Scientific American.