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 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 was awarded an Honorary Degree (Doctor of Letters) from the University of
Bath.
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").
REFERENCES: 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."Between consenting
adults". Philosophy and Public Affairs. Wiley. 14 "Kant on duties regarding
nonrational nature". Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary
Volumes. Wiley. 72 "Constructivism vs. contractualism". Ratio. Wiley. 16 Cfr.
Grice on quasi-contractual in the Oxford lectures on implicature. See also:
Scanlon, T.M. (December 2003). "Replies". Ratio. Wiley. 16 "Interpreting the
world, changing the world". Philosophy Now. 95
"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
Media Freedoms and Media Standards, Centre for Ethics and Law Annual Lecture,
University College London
Reith Lectures on A Question of Trust by O'Neill
Announcement of her introduction at the House of Lords House of Lords minutes
of proceedings
List of O'Neill's published books and papers in academic journals
List of Northern Ireland Members of the House of Lords
Notes: Biography of Officers of the British Academy Universiteit van Amsterdam.
"The Spinoza Chair". "Reith: A Question of Trust - Onora O'Neill". OpenLearn.
British Academy Press Release. House of Lords biography. Debretts People of
Today The Hastings Center Hastings Center Fellows. "Annual Review : Principal's
Review". "Baroness Onora O'Neill to head human rights body". The Scotsman. "No.
60728". The London Gazette (Supplement). "Scholar Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve
awarded Knight Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit". German Missions in the
United Kingdom."The Society for Applied Philosophy". The Society for Applied
Philosophy President: Baroness Onora O'Neill. Holberg Prize Laureates. Jennifer
Schuessler "Onora O’Neill Wins Berggruen Prize for Philosophy". The New York
Times.
Cheers,
Speranza
