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
Neuroscience and Ethics : Assessing Greene's Epistemic Debunking Argument Against Deontology
Failed retrieving data.Précis for The Right to Be Loved
Failed retrieving data.Rightholding, Demandingness of Love, and Parental Licensing
Failed retrieving data.The ethics of memory modification
Failed retrieving data.The Grounds of Ancillary Care Duties
Failed retrieving data.Acknowledgments
Failed retrieving data.Are Intuitions Heuristics?
Failed retrieving data.Bioethics : Current Controversies
Failed retrieving data.Biological Parenting as a Human Right
Failed retrieving data.Current Controversies in Bioethics
Failed retrieving data.Health (care) and human rights : a fundamental conditions approach
Failed retrieving data.Moral brains : the neuroscience of morality
Failed retrieving data.Morality and Neuroscience: Past and Future
Failed retrieving data.The Closeness Problem and the Doctrine of Double Effect : A Way Forward
Failed retrieving data.The Grounds of Ancillary Care Duties
Failed retrieving data.The Right of Children to Be Loved
Failed retrieving data.Human Rights as Fundamental Conditions for a Good Life
Failed retrieving data.Philosophical foundations of human rights
Failed retrieving data.The Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights: An Overview
Failed retrieving data.The Right to Be Loved
Failed retrieving data.After Prozac
Failed retrieving data.The right of children to be loved
Failed retrieving data.Human Engineering and Climate Change
Failed retrieving data.Intentions and moral permissibility : The case of acting permissibly with bad intentions
Failed retrieving data.Political and naturalistic conceptions of human rights : A false polemic?
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