Linking Trust to Trustworthiness | Prof Onora O'Neill (2017)
UCD Ulysses Medal for Philosopher Onora O’Neill
Baroness Onora O’Neill, who has dedicated her career to investigating trust and justice in public life, has been awarded the UCD Ulysses Medal by University College Dublin.
The medal is the highest honour the university can bestow. It was inaugurated in 2005 to highlight the creative brilliance of UCD alumnus James Joyce, who graduated in 1902 with a degree in English, French and Italian.
Baroness Onora O’Neill, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and life peer of the House of Lords, was presented with the award by UCD President, Professor Andrew Deeks.
The official citation was read by Professor Maria Baghramian, Professor of American Philosophy at the UCD School of Philosophy.
In 2017, Baroness Onora O’Neill was named winner of the Holberg Prize. The honour is worth €485,000 and is awarded by the Norwegian government to outstanding scholars in the arts and humanities, social science, law or theology.
Baroness O’Neill came to the attention of the public when she delivered a five-lecture BBC series examining trust and accountability in government and institutions in a post-9/11 world. Titled A Question of Trust, the series was broadcast in 2002 as part of the BBC’s Reith Lectures.
In 1999, she became a life peer in the House of Lords where she helped to shape the United Kingdom’s policy on stem cell research and human tissue use. She was chair of the UK Equality and Human Rights Commission from 2013 - 2016.
She served as President of the British Academy from 2005 - 2009. She was Principal of Newnham College, University of Cambridge from 1992 - 2006 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2007.
Baroness O’Neill has written 11 books on issues surrounding global justice and human rights. These include Faces of Hunger (1986), Bounds of Justice (2000) and Justice across Boundaries: Whose Obligations? (2016).
Born in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, Baroness O’Neill completed her undergraduate degree in philosophy, psychology and physiology at the University of Oxford. She also studied at Harvard University.
Previous recipients of the UCD Ulysses Medal include former US President Bill Clinton, Professor Noam Chomsky, Professor Axel Honneth and former Irish President Mary McAleese.
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It is vanishingly rare to find someone I wholeheartedly agree with on every point.
“Technologies are not the problem, nor is our ability to implement standards on the use of technologies, that goes on. But I think the ethical standards of communication, and judging whether the speech content of others is honest, competent and reliable are being massively disrupted and need rebuilding.” (May not be an exact quote, but extremely close, listen for yourself around 28:30). My opinion: where there are problems, one can often find opportunity in offering innovative solutions in overcoming said problems. In this regard information technology communications, which enabled the massive dissemination of disinformation and allowed the undermining of public trust in fact-based information by certain groups and their agents, now has an opportunity to redeem itself by proving accompanying levels of source checking as a ‘default’ mode to enable straightforward assessment of ‘honesty, competency, reliability’. See 26:50 and following for some of the key highlights of this insightful presentation.
@MartinCanada
Ай бұрын
Interesting comment. And yet what might be the result if certain information technologies systematically advantage certain data sources -- say, when "fact-checking" -- over other data sources, whether by happenstance or possible by design? Cheers.
Genius!
@v.dargain1678
5 жыл бұрын
I don't always get the gist of her lectures on the first try , but after listening to them two or three times I understand her . And I think the same as you . Genius . Perspicacity and common sense are sometimes compatible .
so you challenge the idea that there is a trust issue based on a historical evaluation on self report that spans a mere 20 years; can this even be considered a historical perspective; is this even an accurate measurment; it seems to be cherry picking to forward some kind of agenda
The Madoff's. Good example . LOL .
@cecilefox9136
3 жыл бұрын
My father also made that pun with Madoof!!!