Keynote Speakers

S. Matthew Liao holds the Arthur Zitrin Chair in Bioethics and is the Director for The Center for Bioethics at New York University. 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 is the author of The Right to Be Loved (Oxford University Press 2015) and edited Moral Brains. The Neuroscience of Morality (Oxford University Press 2016). 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.

Amy Mullin is professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto Mississauga. She is the author of Reconceiving Pregnancy and Childcare: Ethics, Experience and Reproductive Labor (Cambridge University Press, 2005) along with numerous articles on children, parenting, and ethics in books and journals such as Ethical Th eory and Moral Practice, Journal of Social Philosophy , and Hypatia. In addition to asking about the responsibility individuals and groups have to meet children’s needs and the grounds for these moral expectations, she is interested in questions about children’s responsibilities and in development of children’s autonomy.

Adam Swift is a political theorist with some training in sociology. Since January 2013, he has been Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick. He is a member of Warwick's Centre for Ethics, Law and Public Affairs.
His latest book is Family Values: The Ethics of Parent-Child Relationships (with Harry Brighouse, Princeton University Press 2014). You can hear him talking about Family Values on Philosophy Bites and The Philosopher's Zone. You can see him talking about it here. Currently his main research project is on Faith Schools: Principles and Policies (with Matthew Clayton, Andrew Mason and Ruth Wareham, funded by the Spencer Foundation).