Faculty Member, Politics
Lecturer in Moral & Political Philosophy
About
Martin O’Neill works on a number of topics in moral and political philosophy. He is especially interested in equality and social justice, freedom and responsibility, and a number of issues at the intersection of political philosophy and public policy (including taxation, financial regulation, corporate governance, labour unions, insurance, climate change, the welfare state, education and health).
Martin is currently (2011-12) on research leave as a British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellow, working on a research project on "Banks, Finance and Social Justice".
His collection on Property-Owning Democracy: Rawls and Beyond, co-edited with Thad Williamson (University of Richmond, Virginia), is published by Wiley-Blackwell in March 2012. Another collection, on Taxation and Political Philosophy, co-edited with Shepley Orr (UCL) is forthcoming from Oxford University Press.
Before coming to York in January 2010, Martin was Hallsworth Research Fellow in Political Economy, based in the Manchester Centre for Political Theory (MANCEPT) at the University of Manchester (2007-09). Before that, he was Research Fellow in Philosophy and Politics at St John’s College, University of Cambridge (2004-07), and Director of Studies in Philosophy at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He holds a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) and a B.Phil. in Philosophy, both from Balliol College, University of Oxford. Martin wrote his Ph.D. dissertation, on “Freedom, Fairness and Responsibility”, under the supervision of T.M. Scanlon and Derek Parfit, in the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University (where he was awarded the Emily & Charles Carrier Prize in Social, Political and Moral Philosophy, and twice received the Francis Bowen Prize for Moral and Political Philosophy).
Martin has been a Graduate Fellow in Ethics at the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government; a Graduate Fellow in the Program on Justice, Welfare and Economics at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; and a Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. He has also been a Visiting Hoover Fellow in Economic and Social Ethics at the Chaire Hoover d'éthique économique et sociale at the Université catholique de Louvain in Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium), where he spent Spring 2009.
His University of York staff webpage is here: http://bit.ly/mpon-york
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