Collin O'Neil

Collin O'Neil (B.A., Luther College; Ph.D., UCLA) is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Lehman College. His fields of interest are moral philosophy, applied ethics, and bioethics. Before coming to Lehman College he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health, a bioethicist at the Research Ethics Group, Division of AIDS, at the National Institutes of Health, and an Assistant Professor / Faculty Fellow at the Center for Bioethics at New York University.

E-mail: collin.oneil@lehman.cuny.edu
Office: Carman 365

Recent Publications

• "Fiction, Defamation, and Freedom of Speech," Journal of Free Speech Law 4, 3 (2024).
• Bioethics: 50 Puzzles, Problems, and Thought Experiments, with Sean D. Aas and Chiara Lepora, (Routledge, 2024). 
• “Commentary on Autonomy-Based Criticisms of the Patient Preference Predictor,” Journal of Medical Ethics 48, 5 (2022). 
• "Profile Evidence, Fairness, and the Risks of Mistaken Convictions," with Marcello Di Bello, Ethics 130, 2 (2020).
• "The Practice of Pharmaceutics and the Moral Responsibility to Expand Access to Investigational Drugs," with Michael Buckley, Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 45, 2 (2020).
• “Consent in Clinical Research,” in Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Consent, eds. Peter Schafer and Andreas Muller (Routledge, 2018).
• "Betraying Trust," in Philosophy of Trust, eds. Paul Faulkner and Thomas Simpson (Oxford University Press, 2017).
• Current Controversies in Bioethics, eds. S. Matthew Liao and Collin O'Neil (Routledge, 2017).
• "Consent and Rights in Comparative Effectiveness Trials," AMA Journal of Ethics 16 (2014).
• "Peer Commentary: Methodological and Inducement Manipulation," American Journal of Bioethics 13 (2013). 
• "Lying, Trust, and Gratitude," Philosophy & Public Affairs 40, 4 (2012).
• "When Scientists Deceive: Applying the Federal Regulations," Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics 37 (2009)