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[...]
Towards Justice and Virtue challenges the rivalry between those who advocate only abstract, universal principles of justice and those who commend only the particularities of virtuous lives. Onora OâNeill traces this impasse to defects in underlying conceptions of reasoning about action. She pro[...]
Two centuries after they were published, Kant?s ethical writings are as much admired and imitated as they have ever been, yet serious and long-standing accusations of internal incoherence remain unresolved. Onora O?Neill traces the alleged incoherences to attempt to assimilate Kant?s ethical writing[...]
In this collection of essays Onora O?Neill explores and argues for an account of justice that is fundamentally cosmopolitan rather than civic, yet takes serious account of institutions and boundaries, and of human diversity and vulnerability. Starting from conceptions that are central to any account[...]
We say we can no longer trust our public services, institutions or the people who run them. The professionals we have to rely on - politicians, doctors, scientists, businessmen and many others - are treated with suspicion. Their word is doubted, their motives questioned. Whether real or perceived, t[...]
Why has autonomy been a leading idea in philosophical writing on bioethics, and why has trust been marginal? In this important book, Onora O?Neill suggests that the conceptions of individual autonomy so widely relied on in bioethics are philosophically and ethically inadequate, and that they undermi[...]
A second edition of O'Neill's important account and defence of the Kantian ethical position, featuring a new introduction and bibliography.[...]
A second edition of O'Neill's important account and defence of the Kantian ethical position, featuring a new introduction and bibliography.[...]