S. Matthew Liao

S. Matthew Liao

S. Matthew Liao (born 1972) is a philosopher at Oxford University known for his work on defending the right of children to be loved.ref|stan He obtained his D.Phil. in philosophy from Oxford University (2001) and graduated "magna cum laude" with an A.B. from Princeton University (1994).

In 2006, Liao was appointed Deputy Director and Senior Research Fellow of the [http://www.bep.ox.ac.uk/ Program on the Ethics of the New Biosciences] in the Faculty of Philosophy/James Martin 21st Century School at Oxford University.ref|bep

Liao was the inaugural Harold T. Shapiro Research Fellow at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University (2003-2004), and a Greenwall Research Fellow at Johns Hopkins University and a Visiting Researcher at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University (2004-2006).

In May 2007, Liao founded [http://www.ethics-etc.com/ Ethics Etc] , a group blog for discussing contemporary philosophical issues in ethics and related areas.

Liao is interested in a wide range of philosophical issues in ethics, moral epistemology, metaphysics, moral psychology, and bioethics, and has published in peer-reviewed, academic journals such as Philosophical Studies, The Monist, Utilitas, Journal of Value Inquiry, Journal of Political Philosophy, Journal of Moral Philosophy, Journal of Medical Ethics, American Journal of Bioethics, the Hastings Center Report, and Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics.

Notes

# [http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rights-children/ Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy on Children's Rights]
# [http://www.bep.ox.ac.uk/our%20people.html Program on the Ethics of the New Biosciences Staff List]

External links

* [http://www.smatthewliao.com/ S. Matthew Liao's homepage] .
* [http://www.bep.ox.ac.uk/ Oxford Program on the Ethics of the New Biosciences]


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