S. Matthew Liao Clinical Associate Professor of Bioethics; Director of Graduate Studies, The Center for Bioethics; Affiliated Professor of Philosophy 285 Mercer Street, Room 1005 New York, NY 10003  Phone: (212) 998-3672 Fax: (212) 995-4055 Email: Office Hours: 3:30-4:30pm Tuesday  D.Phil., Oxford University A.B., magna cum laude, Princeton University Personal Homepage:  http://www.smatthewliao.com

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

• 2012. "Intentions and Moral Permissibility: The Case of Acting Permissibly with Bad Intentions," Law and Philosophy, forthcoming
  
• 2012. "Putting the Trolley in Order: Experimental Philosophy and the Loop Case," Philosophical Psychology, with A. Wiegmann, J. Alexander, and G. Vong, forthcoming
  
• 2012. "Political and Naturalistic Conceptions of Human Rights: A False Polemic?" Journal of Moral Philosophy, with A. Etinson, forthcoming
  
• 2012. "Why Children Need to Be Loved," Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 15 (3) 2012: 347-358
  
• 2012. "Human Engineering and Climate Change," Ethics, Policy and the Environment, 15 (2): 1-16, with A. Sandberg and R. Roache (Target Article)
  
• 2012. "The Genetic Account of Moral Status: A Defense," Journal of Moral Philosophy, 9 (2): 265-277
  
• 2011. “Parental Love Pills: Some Ethical Considerations,” Bioethics, 25 (9): 489-494
• 2011. "Bias and Reasoning: Haidt’s Theory of Moral Judgment,” In New Waves in Ethics, edited by Thom Brooks. Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 108-127
• 2011. "After Prozac." In Enhancing Human Capacities, edited by J. Savulescu, R. ter Muelen, and G. Kahane, Blackwell, pp. 245-256, with Rebecca Roache
• 2010. “Agency and Human Rights,” Journal of Applied Philosophy, 27 (1): 15-25
• 2010. “The Buck-Passing Account of Value: Lessons from Crisp,” Philosophical Studies, 151 (3): 421-432
• 2010. “Twinning, Inorganic Replacement, and the Organism View,” Ratio, 23 (1): 59-72
  
• 2010. “The Basis of Human Moral Status,” Journal of Moral Philosophy, 7 (2): 159-179
• 2010. "The Right of Children to Be Loved." In What Is Right for Children: The Competing Paradigms of Religion and Human Rights, edited by M. Fineman and K. Worthington. Ashgate, forthcoming
• 2009. “The Loop Case and the Doctrine of Triple Effect,” Philosophical Studies, 146 (2) 2009: 223-231
• 2009. “Disclosing Clinical Trial Results: Publicity, Significance and Independence,” American Journal of Bioethics, 9 (8): W3–W5, with Mark Sheehan and Steve Clarke
• 2009. “The Duty to Disclose Adverse Clinical Trial Results,” American Journal of Bioethics, 9 (8): 24-32, with Mark Sheehan and Steve Clarke (Target Article)
• 2009. “Is There a Duty to Share Genetic Information?,” Journal of Medical Ethics 35 (5): 306-309
• 2008. “Who Is Afraid of Numbers?” Utilitas, 20 (4): 447-461
• 2008. “Selecting Children: The Ethics of Reproductive Genetic Engineering,” Philosophy Compass, 3: 1-19
• 2008. “The Normativity of Memory Modification,” Neuroethics, 1 (2): 85-99, with Anders Sandberg
• 2008. “A Defense of Intuitions,” Philosophical Studies, 240 (2): 247-262
• 2008. “Issues in the Pharmacological Induction of Emotions,” Journal of Applied Philosophy, 25 (3): 178-92, with David Wasserman
• 2008. “The Ethics of Enhancement,” Journal of Applied Philosophy, 25 (3): 159-161, with Julian Savulescu and David Wasserman
• 2007. “Ethical and Policy Issues Related to Progenitor Cell-based Strategies for Prevention of Atherosclerosis,” Journal of Medical Ethics, 33: 643-46, with Pascal J. Goldschmidt and Jeremy Sugarman
• 2007. “Time-Relative Interests and Abortion,” Journal of Moral Philosophy, 4 (2): 242-56
• 2007. “Neuroethical Concerns about Moderating Traumatic Memory,” American Journal of Bioethics, 7 (9): 38-40, with David Wasserman
• 2007. “The Ashley Treatment: Best Interests, Convenience, and Parental Decision-making,” The Hastings Center Report, 37 (2): 16-20, with Julian Savulescu and Mark Sheehan
• 2006. “The Idea of a Duty to Love,” Journal of Value Inquiry, 40 (1): 1-22
• 2006. “The Organism View Defended,” The Monist, 89 (3): 334-350
• 2006. “The Right of Children to Be Loved,” Journal of Political Philosophy, 14 (4): 420-440
• 2006. “The Embryo Rescue Case,” Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, 27: 141-147
• 2005. “Rescuing Embryonic Stem Cell Research: The Blastocyst Transfer Method,” American Journal of Bioethics, 5 (6): 8-16 (Target Article)
• 2005. “Response to Commentators on “Rescuing Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research: The Blastocyst Transfer Method”,” American Journal of Bioethics, 5 (6): W10-13 (Response to nine commentators)
• 2005. “The Ethics of Using Genetic Engineering for Sex Selection,” Journal of Medical Ethics 31: 116-118 (JME’s “Top Ten Articles of 2005 and 2006”)
• 2005. “Are ‘Ex Ante’ Enhancements Always Permissible?” American Journal of Bioethics, 5 (3): 23-25 (A commentary on Frances Kamm’s “Is There a Problem with Enhancement?” in the same volume)

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