Liao, S. Matthew

S. Matthew Liao (born 1972) is a Taiwanese-American philosopher specializing in bioethics and normative ethics. He is the Arthur Zitrin Chair of Bioethics at New York University, where he is also the director of the Center for Bioethics and Affiliated Professor in the Department of Philosophy. He has previously held appointments at Oxford, Johns Hopkins, Georgetown, and Princeton. 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), Moral Brains: The Neuroscience of Morality (2016), Current Controversies in Bioethics (2017), and Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (2020). 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 and, in 2019, he was appointed as an Elected Fellow at The Hastings Center.