Onora Sylvia O'Neill, Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve CH CBE FRS FBA FMedSci is a philosopher and a crossbench member of the House of Lords.
The daughter of Sir Con Douglas Walter O'Neill, O. S. O'Neill was educated partly in Germany and at St Paul's Girls' School, London before studying philosophy, psychology and physiology at Oxford.
O. S. O'Neill went on to complete a doctorate at Harvard, with John Rawls (who quotes from Grice's "Personal Identity") as supervisor.
O. S. O'Neill taught at Barnard, the women's college in Columbia, New York.
O. S. O'Neill returned to The Old World and took up a post at the Essex.
O. S. O'Neill was Professor of Philosophy at Essex when she became Principal of Newnham, Cambridge.
O. S. O'Neill went on to complete a doctorate at Harvard, with John Rawls (who quotes from Grice's "Personal Identity") as supervisor.
O. S. O'Neill taught at Barnard, the women's college in Columbia, New York.
O. S. O'Neill returned to The Old World and took up a post at the Essex.
O. S. O'Neill was Professor of Philosophy at Essex when she became Principal of Newnham, Cambridge.
O. S. O'Neill is an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge, a President of the British Academy and chair the Nuffield Foundation.
O. S. O'Neill was the founding President of the British Philosophical Association (BPA).
O. S. O'Neill held the Spinoza Chair of Philosophy at Amsterdam.
She was the Principal of Newnham, Cambridge, and she was in chair in the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
O'Neill's work has earned her numerous honors and awards, including the Berggruen Prize.
O'Neill has written widely on political philosophy and ethics, international justice, bioethics and the philosophy of Immanuel Kant.
Across various works, O'Neill has defended and applied a Griceian constructivist interpretation of Kantian ethics heavily influenced by, and yet critical of, the work of John Rawls (who relies on Grice's "Personal Identity" -- and Rawls was discussed at Grice's Play Group), emphasising the importance of Griceian TRUST, consent and respect for autonomy in a just society.
O. S. O'Neill has written extensively about trust, noting
"that people often choose to rely on the very people whom they claimed NOT to trust"
-- cfr. Grice on the clash between the principle of conversational self-love and the principle of conversational benevolence --
and suggesting that we
"need to free professionals and the public service to serve the public ... to work towards more intelligent forms of accountability ... [and] to rethink a media culture in which spreading suspicion has become a routine activity".
O. S. O'Neill has written extensively about trust, noting
"that people often choose to rely on the very people whom they claimed NOT to trust"
-- cfr. Grice on the clash between the principle of conversational self-love and the principle of conversational benevolence --
and suggesting that we
"need to free professionals and the public service to serve the public ... to work towards more intelligent forms of accountability ... [and] to rethink a media culture in which spreading suspicion has become a routine activity".
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O. S. O'Neill has been President of the Aristotelian Society, a member of the Animal Procedures Committee, chair of Nuffield Council on Bioethics, a member and then acting chair of the Human Genetics Advisory Commission and a member of the select committee on BBC Charter Review.
She is presently chair of the Nuffield Foundation, a trustee of Sense About Science, a trustee of the Ditchley Foundation, and a trustee of the Gates Cambridge Trust.
She also served as President of the British Academy.
She is on the Advisory Board of Incentives for Global Health, the NGO formed to develop the Health Impact Fund proposal.
She is presently chair of the Nuffield Foundation, a trustee of Sense About Science, a trustee of the Ditchley Foundation, and a trustee of the Gates Cambridge Trust.
She also served as President of the British Academy.
She is on the Advisory Board of Incentives for Global Health, the NGO formed to develop the Health Impact Fund proposal.
She was created a life peer as Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve, of The Braid in the County of Antrim, and was elected an Honorary FRS.
She is also a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Austrian Academy of Sciences, a Foreign Member of the American Philosophical Society, and Hon. Member Royal Irish Academy, a Foreign Member of the Leopoldina and the Norwegian Academy of Sciences, and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.
She is an elected fellow of the Hastings Center, an independent bioethics research institution.
She is a Distinguished Senior Fellow of the School of Advanced Study, University of London.
O'Neill also received an Honorary Doctorate from Heriot-Watt University.
She was nominated as the next Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, and confirmed as such in January 2013.
O'Neill was appointed a Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH) for services to philosophy and public policy.[10]
O'Neill was elected to the German order Pour le mérite für Wissenschaften und Künste.
She was awarded the Knight Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for her outstanding contribution to moral and ethical questions of trust, accountability in civic life, justice and virtue.
Currently, she is the president of the Society for Applied Philosophy, with the aim of promoting philosophical study and research that has a direct bearing on areas of practical concern.
She was awarded the Norwegian Holberg Prize for outstanding contributions to research in the arts and humanities "for her influential role in ethical and political philosophy".
The same year she was awarded the Berggruen Prize. Cfr. R. M. Hare on "on principle" (reported by Grice, "Prejudices and predilections").
Bibliography
Books
- O'Neill, O. S. Acting on principle : an essay on Kantian ethics. New York: Columbia University Press.
- Faces of Hunger: An Essay on Poverty, Development and Justice. Allen & Unwin.
- Constructions of Reason: Exploration of Kant's Practical Philosophy. Cambridge University Press. -- cfr. Grice's lectures on Kant -- The Grice Papers.
- Towards Justice and Virtue. Cambridge University Press.
- Bounds of Justice. Cambridge University Press.
- Autonomy and Trust in Bioethics (The 2001 Gifford Lectures. Cambridge University Press.
- A Question of Trust: The BBC Reith Lectures. Cambridge University Press.
- Justice, Trust and Accountability. Cambridge University Press.
- Rethinking Informed Consent in Bioethics. Cambridge University Press. (with Neil Manson)
- Constructing authorities : reason, politics, and interpretation in Kant's philosophy. Cambridge University Press.
- Justice across boundaries : whose obligations?. Cambridge University Press.
Selected essays:
- O'Neill, O. S. "Between consenting adults". Philosophy & Public Affairs. Wiley. 14 (3): 252–277. JSTOR 2265350.
- "Kant on duties regarding nonrational nature". Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volumes. Wiley. 72 (1): 211–228. JSTOR 4107017. doi:10.1111/1467-8349.00043.
- "Constructivism vs. contractualism". Ratio. Wiley. 16 (4): 319–331. doi:10.1046/j.1467-9329.2003.00226.x. Cfr. Grice on quasi-contractual in the Oxford lectures on implicature.
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- See also: Scanlon, T.M. (December 2003). "Replies". Ratio. Wiley. 16 (4): 424–439. doi:10.1046/j.1467-9329.2003.00231.x.
See also
Notes and references
- ^ Biography of Officers of the British Academy
- ^ Universiteit van Amsterdam. "The Spinoza Chair". uva.nl.
- ^ "Reith 2002: A Question of Trust - Onora O'Neill". OpenLearn.
- ^ British Academy Press Release
- ^ House of Lords biography
- ^ Debretts People of Today 2007
- ^ The Hastings Center Hastings Center Fellows. Accessed 6 November 2010
- ^ "Annual Review 2007 : Principal's Review". www1.hw.ac.uk. Retrieved 2016-03-29.
- ^ "Baroness Onora O'Neill to head human rights body". The Scotsman.
- ^ a b "No. 60728". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2013. p. 5.
- ^ "Scholar Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve awarded Knight Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit". German Missions in the United Kingdom. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
- ^ "The Society for Applied Philosophy". The Society for Applied Philosophy President: Baroness Onora O'Neill.
- ^ Holberg Prize Laureates 2017 10. March 2017
- ^ Jennifer Schuessler (3 October 2017). "Onora O’Neill Wins $1 Million Berggruen Prize for Philosophy". The New York Times.
External links
- "On the Side of the Angels" Video of Onora O'Neill debating Ken Livingstone and Peter Lilley at HowTheLightGetsIn Festival, 2 June 2013
- What Should Press Regulation Regulate? Podcast of Baroness O'Neill speaking at a conference by the Foundation for Law, Justice & Society, Oxford, 2012
- Media Freedoms and Media Standards, Centre for Ethics & Law Annual Lecture, University College London, 28 November 2012 Pdf.
- Reith Lectures 2002 on A Question of Trust by O'Neill
- Announcement of her introduction at the House of Lords House of Lords minutes of proceedings, 3 March 1999
- List of O'Neill's published books and papers in academic journals
| Academic offices | ||
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| Preceded by Sheila Browne | Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge 1992–2006 | Succeeded by Patricia Hodgson |
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