This holiday season, many of us will receive unexpected gifts. But Onora O’Neill, the British professor emeritus of philosophy at Cambridge University, has just collected a spectacular one: this week, in a swanky ceremony at the New York Public Library, she was awarded $1m for her contributions to philosophy by the Berggruen Institute, a research organisation based in Los Angeles and created by Nicolas Berggruen, the Paris-born philanthropist and investor.
這個聖誕假期,我們很多人都會收到意想不到的禮物。但英國劍橋大學(Cambridge University)名譽哲學教授奧諾拉•奧尼爾(Onora O'Neill)剛剛收穫了一份大禮:上週,在紐約公共圖書館(New York Public Library)舉行的一場隆重儀式上,她憑藉自己在哲學上的貢獻獲得了博古睿研究院(Berggruen Institute)授予的100萬美元獎金。博古睿研究院是一家位於洛杉磯的研究機構,由生於巴黎的慈善家、投資家尼古拉斯•博古睿(Nicolas Berggruen)創立。