Reading Onora O'Neill

Onora O’Neill is one of the foremost moral philosophers writing today. Her work on ethics and bioethics, political philosophy and the philosophy of Kant is extremely influential. Her landmark Reith Lectures on trust did much to establish the subject not only on the philosophical and political agenda but in the world of media, business and law more widely.

Reading Onora O’Neill is the first book to examine and critically appraise the work of this important thinker. It includes specially commissioned chapters by leading international philosophers in ethics, Kantian philosophy and political philosophy. The following aspects of O’Neill’s work are examined:

• global justice
• Kant
• the ethics of the family
• bioethics
• consent
• trust.

Featuring a substantial reply to her critics at the end of the book, Reading Onora O’Neill is essential reading for students and scholars of ethics and political philosophy.

Onora O’Neill, Baroness O’Neill of Bengarve, is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Cambridge, UK. She is a former President of the British Academy, and former chair of the Nuffield Foundation, and now chairs the Equality and Human Rights Commission. In 2002 she delivered the BBC Reith Lectures, A Question of Trust. Her publications include Towards Justice and Virtue, Bounds of Justice, and Autonomy and Trust in Bioethics.

David Archard is Professor of Philosophy in the School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy at Queen’s University, Belfast, UK.

Monique Deveaux is Professor of Philosophy and Canada Research Chair of Ethics and Global Social Change at the University of Guelph, Canada.

Neil Manson is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy in the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion at Lancaster University, UK.

Daniel Weinstock is Professor in the Faculty of Law and member of the Research Group on Constitutional Studies at McGill University, Canada.