Martin O'Neill is Research Fellow in Philosophy and Politics at St John's College, Cambridge. His research is in political philosophy, ethics, the philosophy of action and bioethics. He is especially interested in issues relating to freedom and responsibility, justice and equality. He also has interests in the history of political thought, in philosophy of law, in early modern philosophy, and in metaphysics. He is finishing his Ph.D. in the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University, writing on 'Freedom, Fairness and Responsibility', under the supervision of Thomas M. Scanlon, Derek Parfit and Richard Moran. Originally from London, Martin attended Oxford University before coming to Harvard, and holds a B.A. with First Class Honours in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, an M.A., and a B.Phil. in Philosophy from Balliol College. At Harvard, Martin was a teaching fellow for courses on ethics, political philosophy, and the philosophy of law in the Core Program, and was on five occasions awarded a Certificate of Excellence in Teaching from the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning. At Cambridge University, Martin has taught a variety of courses in ethics, political philosophy and bioethics, and has given graduate seminars on 'Justice, Equality and Responsibility', 'Global Justice' and 'The Political Philosophy of John Rawls'. He has published on issues in genetics and social justice and on Wittgenstein's conception of logical necessity. Martin has previously been a Graduate Fellow in the Program on Justice, Welfare and Economics at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and a Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. He has twice received Harvard's Francis Bowen Prize for Moral and Political Philosophy.

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