Onora O'Neill, Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve

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Onora O'Neill (2013)

Onora Sylvia O'Neill, Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve CH CBE FBA FRS (born August 23, 1941 in Aughafatten , County Antrim ) is a British philosopher , university professor and politician who has been a Life Peeress member of the House of Lords since 1999 .

Life

After schooling Onora O'Neill holds a degree in philosophy and was after graduation from 1970 to 1977, first assistant and finally associate professor ( associate professor ) of philosophy at Barnard College and at the City University of New York . After her return to Great Britain in 1978 she became a lecturer and later professor of philosophy at the University of Essex , where she taught until 1992. During this teaching activity, she was also visiting professor at the Australian National University (ANU) in 1984, at Santa Clara University in 1985 and a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin between 1989 and 1990 . At the same time, she was active as President of the Aristotle Society between 1988 and 1989 .

After finishing her teaching at the University of Essex, she served from 1992 to 2006 as Principal ( Principal ) of Newnham College of the University of Cambridge . During this time Onora O'Neill, who became Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1995 , was Chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics between 1996 and 1998 and a member of the Advisory Commission on Human Genetics from 1996 to 1999, most recently chairing this commission in 1999. In addition, she was initially trustee of the Nuffield Foundation in 1997 and was last chairman of this foundation from 1998 to 2010 .

Onora O'Neill was raised to the nobility by a letters patent dated February 25, 1999 as a Life Peeress with the title Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve , of the Valley of the Braid in the County of Antrim . Shortly thereafter took place on 3 March 1999 its introduction ( Introduction ) as a member of the House of Lords . In the upper house she belongs to the group of non-party peers, the so-called crossbenchers .

She has been honored several times for her scientific achievements and has been an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Fellow of the British Academy since 1993, honorary member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences since 2002, and honorary member of the Royal Irish since 2003 Academy and external member of the American Philosophical Society , member of the Leopoldina since 2004 , honorary member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences since 2006, honorary fellow of the Royal Society since 2007 and full member of the Academia Europaea since 2009 . In 2014 she was also awarded the Order of the Companions of Honor and the Orden Pour le Mérite , and in 2017 she was awarded the Holberg Prize .

Publications

  • Acting on Principle (1976)
  • Faces of Hunger (1986)
  • Constructions of Reason (1989)
  • Towards Justice and Virtue (1996)
  • Bounds of Justice (2000)
  • Autonomy and Trust in Bioethics (2002)
  • A Question of Trust (2002)
  • Rethinking Informed Consent in Bioethics (2007)
  • Justice across borders. Obligations in a globalized society. Claudius, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-532-62836-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Introduction of Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve ( Hansard, March 3, 1999)
  2. ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Onora O'Neill (with picture) at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on July 15, 2016.
  3. ^ Membership directory: Onora O'Neill. Academia Europaea, accessed January 4, 2018 .
  4. ↑ https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/269031/New-Year-Honours-2014-PM-list.pdf
personal data
SURNAME O'Neill, Onora, Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve
ALTERNATIVE NAMES O'Neill, Onora Sylvia, Baroness O'Neill of Bengrave (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British philosopher, university professor and politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 23, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Aughafatten , County Antrim , Northern Ireland