S Matthew Liao
S. Matthew Liao
Director of the Center for Bioethics
Arthur Zitrin Professor of Bioethics
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Professional overview
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Dr. Matthew Liao uses the tools of philosophy to study and examine the ramifications of novel biomedical innovations.
A speaker at TEDxCERN, Dr. Liao discussed whether it is ethical for someone to erase certain aspects of their memories and how doing so might affect that individual's identity. He has also given a TED talk in New York and been featured in the New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, and other numerous media outlets.
The author and editor of four books, Dr. Liao provides the academic community with a collection of human rights essays. In The Right to be Loved, he explores the philosophical foundations underpinning children's right to be loved, and proposes that we reconceptualize our policies concerning adoptions so that individuals who are not romantically linked can co-adopt a child together.
Dr. Liao provides students with an education grounded in a broad conception of bioethics encompassing both medical and environmental ethics. He offers students the opportunity to explore the intersection of human rights practice with central domains of public health and regularly teaches normative theory and neuroethics. His courses address how the rightness or wrongness of an act is determined and ethical issues arising out of new medical technologies such as embryonic stem cell research, cloning, artificial reproduction, and genetic engineering; ethical issues raised by the development and use of neuroscientific technologies such as the ethics of erasing traumatic memories; the ethics of mood and cognitive enhancements; and moral and legal implications of "mind-reading" technologies for brain privacy.
To learn more about Dr. Liao and his work, visit his website and blog.
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Education
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AB, Politics (Magna Cum Laude), Princeton University, Princeton, NJDPhil, Philosophy, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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Honors and awards
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Outstanding Academic Title, The Right to Be Loved, Choice Review (2016)TEDx Speaker at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland (2015)TEDx Speaker, New York, NY (2013)Humanities Grant Initiative, NYU (2011)Big Think Delphi Fellow (2011)
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Areas of research and study
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BioethicsEpistemologyMetaphysicsMoral Psychology
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Publications
Publications
AI Ethics 2.0: Why Frontier AI Demands a New Governance Agenda for Healthcare
Failed retrieving data.Beyond Information and Bias: A Value-Based Model for Understanding Why People Act Against Scientific Consensus
Failed retrieving data.Confidence Distortions in Addiction: Explaining the Difficulty Problem in Recovery
Failed retrieving data.The Moral Line: From Vagueness to Capacity Safety in Threshold Deontology
Failed retrieving data.A Human Rights Approach to AI and Digital Governance
Failed retrieving data.Navigating the Complexities of AI and Digital Governance: A 5W1H Framework
Failed retrieving data.Why Do You Ask?’ Revisiting the Purpose of Eliciting the Public’s Moral Judgments About Emerging Technologies
Failed retrieving data.‘Why Do You Ask?’ Revisiting the Purpose of Eliciting the Public’s Moral Judgments About Emerging Technologies
Failed retrieving data.Lives, Limbs, and Liver Spots : The Threshold Approach to Limited Aggregation
Failed retrieving data.When to Save the Baby: A Fundamental Conditions Approach
Failed retrieving data.A Right Response to Anti-Natalism
Failed retrieving data.Ethics of AI and Health Care: Towards a Substantive Human Rights Framework
Failed retrieving data.Computational ethics
Failed retrieving data.Do Older People Have a Right to Be Loved?
Failed retrieving data.The Place of Philosophy in Bioethics Today
Failed retrieving data.Ethics review of big data research : What should stay and what should be reformed?
Failed retrieving data.A critique of some recent victim-centered theories of nonconsequentialism
Failed retrieving data.A Short Introduction to the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
Failed retrieving data.Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
Failed retrieving data.The Moral Status and Rights of Artificial Intelligence
Failed retrieving data.Designing humans : A human rights approach
Failed retrieving data.Human Rights and Public Health Ethics
Failed retrieving data.Human Rights and Public Health Ethics
Failed retrieving data.Genetic Information, the Principle of Rescue, and Special Obligations
Failed retrieving data.Do mitochondrial replacement techniques affect qualitative or numerical identity?
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