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Dr S. Matthew Liao

Deputy Director & James Martin 21st Century School Senior
Research Fellow, Program on the Ethics of the New Biosciences

matthew.liao@philosophy.ox.ac.uk

Program on the Ethics of the New Biosciences
Suite 8, Littlegate House
16-17 St Ebbe's Street
Oxford OX1 1PT

www.smatthewliao.com

Research Interests

Ethics, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Moral Psychology, and Bioethics

Past Appointments

2004-2006 Greenwall Research Fellow/Visiting Researcher at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, John Hopkins/Georgetown Universities
2003-2004 Harold T. Shapiro Research Fellow, Center for Human Values, Princeton University
2002-2003 Research Associate, Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Oxford University
2001-2002  College Lecturer, Trinity and Hertford Colleges, Oxford University

Education

1994-2001 DPhil in Philosophy, Oxford University
1990-1994  A.B. in Politics, Princeton University

Matthew Liao

Recent Publications

Edited Volumes

  1. 2008. “The Ethics of Enhancement,” Journal of Applied Philosophy, 25 (3), co-edited with Julian Savulescu and David Wasserman

Articles

  1. 2009. “The Buck-Passing Account of Value: Lessons from Crisp,” Philosophical Studies, forthcoming
  2. 2009. “Agency and Human Rights,” Journal of Applied Philosophy, forthcoming
  3. 2009. “Twinning, Inorganic Replacement, and the Organism View,” Ratio, forthcoming
  4. 2009. “The Basis of Human Moral Status,” Journal of Moral Philosophy, forthcoming
  5. 2009. “The Loop Case and the Doctrine of Triple Effect,” Philosophical Studies, 146 (2) 2009: 223-231
  6. 2009. “Disclosing Clinical Trial Results: Publicity, Significance and Independence,” American Journal of Bioethics, 9 (8): W3-W5, with Mark Sheehan and Steve Clarke
  7. 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)
  8. 2009. “Is There a Duty to Share Genetic Information?,” Journal of Medical Ethics 35 (5): 306-309
  9. 2008. “Who Is Afraid of Numbers?” Utilitas, 20 (4): 447-461
  10. 2008. “Selecting Children: The Ethics of Reproductive Genetic Engineering,” Philosophy Compass, 3: 1-19
  11. 2008. “The Normativity of Memory Modification,” Neuroethics, 1 (2): 85-99, with Anders Sandberg
  12. 2008. “A Defense of Intuitions,” Philosophical Studies, 240 (2): 247-262
  13. 2008. “Issues in the Pharmacological Induction of Emotions,” Journal of Applied Philosophy, 25 (3): 178-92, with David Wasserman
  14. 2008. “The Ethics of Enhancement,” Journal of Applied Philosophy, 25 (3): 159-161, with Julian Savulescu and David Wasserman
  15. 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
  16. 2007. “Time-Relative Interests and Abortion,” Journal of Moral Philosophy, 4 (2): 242-56
  17. 2007. “Neuroethical Concerns about Moderating Traumatic Memory,” American Journal of Bioethics, 7 (9): 38-40, with David Wasserman
  18. 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
  19. 2006. “The Idea of a Duty to Love,” Journal of Value Inquiry, 40 (1): 1-22
  20. 2006. “The Organism View Defended,” The Monist, 89 (3): 334-350
  21. 2006. “The Right of Children to Be Loved,” Journal of Political Philosophy, 14 (4): 420-440
  22. 2006. “The Embryo Rescue Case,” Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, 27: 141-147
  23. 2005. “Rescuing Embryonic Stem Cell Research: The Blastocyst Transfer Method,” American Journal of Bioethics, 5 (6): 8-16 (Target Article)
  24. 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)
  25. 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”)  
  26. 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)

Book Chapters

  1. 2009. "After Prozac." In Enhancing Human Capacities, edited by J. Savulescu, R. ter Muelen, and G. Kahane, Blackwell, forthcoming, with Rebecca Roache
  2. 2009. "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

Encyclopedia Entries and Book Reviews

  1. 2009. "Contractualism." In Encyclopedia of Political Theory, edited by Mark Bevir.  Sage, with Jussi Suikkanen, forthcoming 
  2. 2009. "Psychopharmacology." In International Encyclopedia of Ethics, edited by Hugh LaFollette. Blackwell, commissioned
  3. 2001. T. Scanlon, What We Owe To Each Other (Harvard, 2000), Metapsychology Online, http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=918