Onora O'Neill, Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve

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

Life

After schooling Onora O'Neill holds a degree in philosophy and was after graduation 1970-1977, first assistant, and most recently an Associate Professor (Associate Professor ) of Philosophy at Barnard College and the City University of New York. After returning to the UK in 1978 she initially Lecturer and later Professor of Philosophy at the University of Essex, where she taught until 1992. During this teaching, she was also a visiting professor in 1984 at the Australian National University ( ANU ), 1985 at the Santa Clara University, and between 1989 and 1990 Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study Berlin. At the same time, she was active 1988-1989 President of the Aristotelian Society.

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

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

For her scientific achievements, she was honored several times and is among other things since 1993 Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Fellow of the British Academy, since 2002 Honorary Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, since 2003 Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy and Foreign Member of the American Philosophical Society, since 2006 honorary Member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and since 2007 honorary Fellow of the Royal Society. In 2014 she was also awarded the Order of the Companions of Honour.

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)