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'''John F. O'Neill''' is a [[philosopher]]. He is [[professor]] of [[political economy]] at the [[University of Manchester]].<ref name="um-fac bio">{{cite web |url=https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/john.f.o'neill.html |title=Researchers: Prof John O'Neill |work=School of Social Sciences site |publisher=[[University of Manchester]] |access-date=19 September 2019}} Earlier data is available on a previous version of his faculty bio: {{cite web|url=http://staffprofiles.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/Profile.aspx?Id=John.F.O%27neill|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140324015422/http://staffprofiles.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/Profile.aspx?Id=John.F.O%27neill|title=Staff: Prof John O'Neill|work=School of Social Sciences site|publisher=[[University of Manchester]]|archive-date=24 March 2014|access-date=24 March 2014}}</ref> He has published on subjects related to political economy and philosophy, philosophy and [[environmental policy]], [[political theory]], [[environmental ethics]], and the [[philosophy of science]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/researchers/john-oneill(f38c5bc2-3fab-4956-b865-9320310f4481)/publications.html |title=Researchers: Prof John O'Neill: Publications |work=School of Social Sciences site |publisher=[[University of Manchester]] |access-date=19 September 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/researchers/john-oneill(f38c5bc2-3fab-4956-b865-9320310f4481)/projects.html?period=running |title=Researchers: Prof John O'Neill: Research interests |work=School of Social Sciences site |publisher=[[University of Manchester]] |access-date=19 September 2019}}</ref>
'''John O'Neill''' is a [[philosopher]]. He is [[professor]] of [[Political Economy]] at the [[University of Manchester]].<ref name="um-fac bio" />


==Academic history==
==Academic history==
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Previously, he was on the faculty of the [[University of Sussex]] and the [[University of Wales]].<ref name="um-fac bio" />
Previously, he was on the faculty of the [[University of Sussex]] and the [[University of Wales]].<ref name="um-fac bio" />


==Critical reaction==
==Works==
Reviewing O'Neill's book ''The Market: Ethics, Knowledge and Politics'', Mark Peacock wrote that "O'Neill defends an [[Aristotelian ethics|Aristotelian]] perfectionism which allows for a plurality of goods pursued for their own sake. [...] The argument is sound, but does not answer the liberal objection to Aristotle that individuals must be allowed to pursue ''what they believe to be'' the good."<ref name="etmp-peacock00">Reviewed in: {{cite journal|last=Peacock|first=Mark|date=December 2000|title=John O'Neill, The Market: Ethics, Knowledge and Politics|journal=Ethical Theory and Moral Practice|volume=3|issue=4|pages=461–463|issn=1386-2820|doi=10.1023/A:1009921926850|s2cid=141532333}}</ref>

==Selected works==
'''Books'''
'''Books'''
*{{cite book|last1=O'Neill|first1=John|first2=Andrew |last2=Light |first3=Alan |last3=Holland|title=Environmental Values|publisher=Routledge|location=London|year=2008|isbn=978-0415145091}}<ref name="um-fac bio" />
*{{cite book|last1=O'Neill|first1=John|first2=Andrew |last2=Light |first3=Alan |last3=Holland|title=Environmental Values|url=https://archive.org/details/environmentalval00john_0|url-access=registration|publisher=[[Routledge]]|location=London|year=2008|isbn=978-0415145091}}<ref name="um-fac bio" />
*{{cite book|last=O'Neill|first=John|title=Markets, Deliberation and Environment|publisher=Routledge|location=London|year=2007}}<ref name="um-fac bio" />
*{{cite book|last=O'Neill|first=John|title=Markets, Deliberation and Environment|publisher=[[Routledge]]|location=London|year=2007}}<ref name="um-fac bio" />
*{{cite book|last=O'Neill|first=John|title=The Market: Ethics, Knowledge and Politics|publisher=Routledge|year=1998}}<ref name="um-fac bio" />
*{{cite book|last=O'Neill|first=John|title=The Market: Ethics, Knowledge and Politics|url=https://archive.org/details/marketethicsknow0000onei|url-access=registration|publisher=[[Routledge]]|year=1998}}<ref name="um-fac bio" /><ref name="etmp-peacock00" />
*{{cite book|title=Justice, Property and the Environment: Social and Legal Perspectives|editor1-last=Hayward |editor1-first=Time|year=1997 |editor2-last=O'Neill |editor2-first=John |location=Aldershot |publisher=Ashgate |series=Avebury Series in Philosophy}}<ref name="jaee-hughs97" />
*{{cite book|title=Justice, Property and the Environment: Social and Legal Perspectives|editor1-last=Hayward |editor1-first=Tim |year=1997 |editor2-last=O'Neill |editor2-first=John |location=Aldershot |publisher=[[Ashgate Publishing]] |series=Avebury Series in Philosophy}}<ref name="jaee-hughs97">Reviewed in: {{cite journal|last=Hughes|first=William H.|date=October 1999|title=Tim Hayward and John O'Neill (eds.), Justice, Property and the Environment: Social and Legal Perspectives (review)|journal=[[Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics]]|volume=11|issue=3|pages=249–252|issn=1187-7863|doi=10.1023/A:1009554705279|s2cid=140358584}}</ref>


'''Journal articles'''
'''Articles'''
* {{cite book |last=O'Neill |first=John |date=2019 |chapter=Food, needs and commons |editor1-last=Vivero Pol |editor1-first=Jose Luis |editor2-last=Ferrando |editor2-first=Tomaso |editor3-last=Schutter |editor3-first=Olivier de |editor4-last=Mattei |editor4-first=Ugo |title=Routledge Handbook of Food as a Commons |series=Routledge handbooks |location=Abingdon; New York |publisher=[[Routledge]] |pages=103–120 |isbn=9781138062627 |oclc=1048659357 |doi=10.4324/9781315161495-7 }}
* {{Cite journal | last = O'Neill | first = John | title = Against reductionist explanations of human behaviour | journal = [[Aristotelian Society#Publications|Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volumes]] | volume = 72 | issue = 1 | pages = 173–188 | doi = 10.1111/1467-8349.00041 | jstor = 4107016 | date = June 1998 | ref = harv }}
* {{cite book |last=O'Neill |first=John |date=2018 |chapter=Environmental markets |editor1-last=Castree |editor1-first=Noel |editor2-last=Hulme |editor2-first=Mike |editor3-last=Proctor |editor3-first=James D. |title=Companion to Environmental Studies |location=London; New York |publisher=[[Routledge]] |pages=640–644 |isbn=9781138192201 |oclc=1004920282 |doi=10.4324/9781315640051-125 }}

* {{cite book |last=O'Neill |first=John |date=2018 |chapter=How not to argue against growth: happiness, austerity and inequality |editor1-last=Rosa |editor1-first=Hartmut |editor2-last=Henning |editor2-first=Christoph |title=The Good Life Beyond Growth: New Perspectives |series=Routledge studies in ecological economics |location=London; New York |publisher=[[Routledge]] |pages=141–152 |isbn=9781138687882 |oclc=999673721 |doi=10.4324/9781315542126-12 }}
==Critical reaction==
* {{cite journal |last=O'Neill |first=John |date=July 2017 |title=The price of an apology: justice, compensation and rectification |journal=[[Cambridge Journal of Economics]] |volume=41 |issue=4 |pages=1043–1059 |doi=10.1093/cje/bew047 |url=https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/the-price-of-an-apology(06eb8876-627c-4a6d-95d9-627e9bfc97dd).html }}
Mark Peacock wrote that in ''The Market: Ethics, Knowledge and Politics'' "O'Neill defends an [[Aristotelian ethics|Aristotelian]] perfectionism which allows for a plurality of goods pursued for their own sake....The argument is sound, but does not answer the liberal objection to Aristotle that individuals must be allowed to pursue ''what they believe to be'' the good."<ref name="etmp-peacock00" />
* {{cite book |last1=O'Neill |first1=John |last2=Uebel |first2=Thomas E. |date=2015 |chapter=Analytical philosophy and ecological economics |editor1-last=Martínez Alier |editor1-first=Juan |editor2-last=Muradian |editor2-first=Roldan |title=Handbook of Ecological Economics |location=Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA |publisher=[[Edward Elgar Publishing]] |pages=48–73 |isbn=9781783471409 |oclc=919108216 |doi=10.4337/9781783471416.00007 |url=https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/analytical-philosophy-and-ecological-economics(84ed32e7-0f85-468d-801f-6906f3401528).html }}

* {{cite book |last=O'Neill |first=John |date=2007 |chapter=Pluralism and economic institutions |editor1-last=Nemeth |editor1-first=Elisabeth |editor2-last=Schmitz |editor2-first=Stefan W. |editor3-last=Uebel |editor3-first=Thomas E. |title=Otto Neurath's economics in context |series=Vienna Circle Institute yearbook |volume=13 |location=Dordrecht; New York |publisher=[[Springer-Verlag]] |pages=77–100 |isbn=9781402069048 |oclc=272308846 |doi=10.1007/978-1-4020-6905-5_5 }}
==See also==
* {{cite journal |last=O'Neill |first=John |date=March 2006 |title=Knowledge, planning, and markets: a missing chapter in the socialist calculation debates |journal=[[Economics & Philosophy]] |volume=22 |issue=1 |pages=55–78 |doi=10.1017/S0266267105000702 |s2cid=154580968 }}
*[[Environmental ethics]]
* {{cite journal |last=O'Neill |first=John F. |date=September 2003 |title=Unified science as political philosophy: positivism, pluralism and liberalism |journal=[[Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A]] |volume=34 |issue=3 |pages=575–596 |doi=10.1016/S0039-3681(03)00048-7 }}
*[[Environmental policy]]
* {{Cite journal | last = O'Neill | first = John | title = Against reductionist explanations of human behaviour | journal = Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volumes | volume = 72 | issue = 1 | pages = 173–188 | doi = 10.1111/1467-8349.00041 | jstor = 4107016 | date = June 1998 }}


==References==
==References==
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<ref name="jaee-hughs97">{{cite journal|last=Hughes|first=William H.|date=October 1999|title=Time Hayward and John O'Neill (eds.), Justice, Property and the Environment: Social and Legal Perspectives (review)|journal=Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics|volume=11|issue=3|pages=249–252|issn=1187-7863|doi=10.1023/A:1009554705279}}</ref>
<ref name="etmp-peacock00">{{cite journal|last=Peacock|first=Mark|date=December 2000|title=John O'Neill, The Market: Ethics, Knowledge and Politics|journal=Ethical Theory and Moral Practice|volume=3|issue=4|pages=461–463|issn=1386-2820|doi=10.1023/A:1009921926850}}</ref>
<ref name="um-fac bio">{{cite web|url=http://staffprofiles.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/Profile.aspx?Id=John.F.O%27neill|title=Professor John O'Neill|work=School of Social Sciences site|publisher=[[University of Manchester]]|accessdate=23 March 2014}}</ref>
}}


==External links==
==External links==
* {{cite web |url=http://www.oxfordjournals.org/society/bsps/oneill.mp3 |title=Recording of a lecture by John O'Neill on Friedrich Hayek and Otto Neurath at the London School of Economics |website=oxfordjournals.org|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120224022750/http://www.oxfordjournals.org/society/bsps/oneill.mp3 |archive-date=2012-02-24 }}
* [http://staffprofiles.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/Profile.aspx?Id=John.F.O%27neill John O'Neill's webpage at the University of Manchester]
* {{cite web |url=https://www.uibk.ac.at/ipoint/news/uni_international/342640.html |title=Article on John O'Neill at the University of Innsbruck |website=uibk.ac.at |language=de}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120224022750/http://www.oxfordjournals.org/society/bsps/oneill.mp3 Recording of a lecture by John O'Neill on Hayek and Neurath at the London School of Economics]
* [http://www.uibk.ac.at/ipoint/news/uni_international/342640.html Article on John O'Neill at the University of Innsbruck (German)]


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John F. O'Neill
Era20th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolAnalytic philosophy
Main interests
Political philosophy, market, ethics, environmental philosophy, ecological economics

John F. O'Neill is a philosopher. He is professor of political economy at the University of Manchester.[1] He has published on subjects related to political economy and philosophy, philosophy and environmental policy, political theory, environmental ethics, and the philosophy of science.[2][3]

Academic history

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John O'Neill held the post of professor of philosophy at Lancaster University.[1]

Previously, he was on the faculty of the University of Sussex and the University of Wales.[1]

Critical reaction

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Reviewing O'Neill's book The Market: Ethics, Knowledge and Politics, Mark Peacock wrote that "O'Neill defends an Aristotelian perfectionism which allows for a plurality of goods pursued for their own sake. [...] The argument is sound, but does not answer the liberal objection to Aristotle that individuals must be allowed to pursue what they believe to be the good."[4]

Selected works

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Books

  • O'Neill, John; Light, Andrew; Holland, Alan (2008). Environmental Values. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0415145091.[1]
  • O'Neill, John (2007). Markets, Deliberation and Environment. London: Routledge.[1]
  • O'Neill, John (1998). The Market: Ethics, Knowledge and Politics. Routledge.[1][4]
  • Hayward, Tim; O'Neill, John, eds. (1997). Justice, Property and the Environment: Social and Legal Perspectives. Avebury Series in Philosophy. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing.[5]

Articles

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f "Researchers: Prof John O'Neill". School of Social Sciences site. University of Manchester. Retrieved 19 September 2019. Earlier data is available on a previous version of his faculty bio: "Staff: Prof John O'Neill". School of Social Sciences site. University of Manchester. Archived from the original on 24 March 2014. Retrieved 24 March 2014.
  2. ^ "Researchers: Prof John O'Neill: Publications". School of Social Sciences site. University of Manchester. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
  3. ^ "Researchers: Prof John O'Neill: Research interests". School of Social Sciences site. University of Manchester. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
  4. ^ a b Reviewed in: Peacock, Mark (December 2000). "John O'Neill, The Market: Ethics, Knowledge and Politics". Ethical Theory and Moral Practice. 3 (4): 461–463. doi:10.1023/A:1009921926850. ISSN 1386-2820. S2CID 141532333.
  5. ^ Reviewed in: Hughes, William H. (October 1999). "Tim Hayward and John O'Neill (eds.), Justice, Property and the Environment: Social and Legal Perspectives (review)". Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics. 11 (3): 249–252. doi:10.1023/A:1009554705279. ISSN 1187-7863. S2CID 140358584.
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