Onora O'Neill is a cross-bench member of the House of Lords. She has written extensively on ethics and political philosophy and in particular on Kant. Recent books include: A Question of Trust: The BBC Reith Lectures 2002 (Cambridge University Press, 2002), Autonomy and Trust in Bioethics (2002) and Rethinking Informed Consent in Bioethics (with Neil Manson, 2007).
'The most incisive and thoughtful defence of Kant along these lines that we have ... [O'Neill] writes with a kind of brisk lucidity that is entirely admirable.' The Times Literary Supplement