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
Putting the trolley in order : Experimental philosophy and the loop case
Failed retrieving data.The genetic account of moral status : A defense
Failed retrieving data.Why children need to be loved
Failed retrieving data.After Prozac
Failed retrieving data.Bias and Reasoning: Haidt’s Theory of Moral Judgment
Failed retrieving data.Parental Love Pills : Some Ethical Considerations
Failed retrieving data.The basis of human moral status
Failed retrieving data.Time-relative interests and abortion
Failed retrieving data.Agency and human rights
Failed retrieving data.The basis of human moral status
Failed retrieving data.The buck-passing account of value : Lessons from Crisp
Failed retrieving data.Twinning, inorganic replacement, and the organism view
Failed retrieving data.Disclosing clinical trial results : Publicity, significance and independence
Failed retrieving data.Is there a duty to share genetic information?
Failed retrieving data.The duty to disclose adverse clinical trial results
Failed retrieving data.The Loop Case and Kamm's Doctrine of Triple Effect
Failed retrieving data.The right of children to be loved
Failed retrieving data.The role of animal models in evaluating reasonable safety and efficacy for human trials of cell-based interventions for neurologic conditions
Failed retrieving data.Unintended changes in cognition, mood, and behavior arising from cell-based interventions for neurological conditions : Ethical challenges
Failed retrieving data.A defense of intuitions
Failed retrieving data.Cell-based interventions for neurologic conditions : Ethical challenges for early human trials
Failed retrieving data.Issues in the pharmacological induction of emotions
Failed retrieving data.Selecting Children: The Ethics of Reproductive Genetic Engineering
Failed retrieving data.The ethics of enhancement
Failed retrieving data.The Normativity of Memory Modification
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