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S. Matthew Liao

Clinical Associate Professor of Bioethics; Director of Graduate Studies, The Center for Bioethics; Affiliated Professor of Philosophy
D.Phil., Oxford University
A.B., magna cum laude, Princeton University

Office Address:
285 Mercer Street, Room 1005
New York, NY 10003
Email:
Phone: (212) 998-3672
Fax: (212) 995-4055
Personal Homepage

Areas of Research/Interest:
ethics, epistemology, metaphysics, moral psychology, bioethics

Affiliated with other departments or programs
Affiliated Professor of Philosophy

Publications

S. Matthew Liao is the Director of Graduate Studies for the MA Program in Bioethics, the Associate Director of the Center for Bioethics at New York University, and a Clinical Associate Professor of Bioethics. From 2006 to 2009, he was the Deputy Director and James Martin Senior Research Fellow in the Program on the Ethics of the New Biosciences in the Faculty of Philosophy at Oxford University. He was the Harold T. Shapiro Research Fellow in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University in 2003–2004, and a Greenwall Research Fellow at Johns Hopkins University and a Visiting Researcher at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University from 2004–2006. In May 2007, he founded Ethics Etc, a group blog for discussing contemporary philosophical issues in ethics and related areas. He is interested in a wide range of issues including ethics, epistemology, metaphysics, moral psychology, and bioethics. Some of his writings include:

Edited Volumes

  • 2008. “The Ethics of Enhancement,” Journal of Applied Philosophy, 25 (3), co-edited with Julian Savulescu and David Wasserman

Selected Articles and Book Chapters

    Encyclopedia Entries and Book Reviews

    • 2010. "Contractualism." In Encyclopedia of Political Theory, edited by Mark Bevir. Sage, with Jussi Suikkanen, forthcoming
    • 2010. "Psychopharmacology." In International Encyclopedia of Ethics, edited by Hugh LaFollette. Blackwell, commissioned
    • 2001. T. Scanlon, What We Owe To Each Other (Harvard, 2000), Metapsychology Online, http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=918

    Interviews

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