S. Matthew Liao
Taiwanese-born American philosopher / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dear Wikiwand AI, let's keep it short by simply answering these key questions:
Can you list the top facts and stats about S. Matthew Liao?
Summarize this article for a 10 year old
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,[1] and is the Director of the Center for Bioethics and Affiliated Professor in the Department of Philosophy at New York University.[2] He has previously held appointments at Oxford, Johns Hopkins, Georgetown, and Princeton.
A major contributor to this article appears to have a close connection with its subject. (November 2021) |
S. Matthew Liao | |
---|---|
Born | 1972 (age 51–52) |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Princeton University (A. B.) Oxford University (D. Phil) |
Era | Contemporary philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Analytic |
Thesis | The right of children to be loved (2001) |
Main interests | Bioethics; Normative Ethics; Political Philosophy; Epistemology; Moral Psychology; Metaphysics |
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),[3] Moral Brains: The Neuroscience of Morality (2016),[4] Current Controversies in Bioethics (2017),[5] and Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (2020).[6] 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[7] and, in 2019, he was appointed as an Elected Fellow at The Hastings Center,[8] a prestigious bioethics research institute. Liao's work has been discussed in, among other places, The Guardian,[9] the BBC,[10] The New York Times,[11] The Atlantic,[12] and Scientific American.[13]