Hilary Bok

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Hilary Bok
Born1959 (age 6364)
Education Princeton University (BA)
Harvard University (PhD)
Awards Laurance S. Rockefeller Fellowship
Era 21st century Philosophy
Region Western philosophy
School Analytic philosophy
Institutions Johns Hopkins University
Main interests
Moral theory, Bioethics

Hilary Bok (born 1959) is the Henry R. Luce Professor of Bioethics and Moral & Political Theory at Johns Hopkins University. Bok received a B.A. in philosophy from Princeton University in 1981 and her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1991.

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Family

Her parents are the well-known academics Derek Bok and Sissela Bok and her maternal grandparents were the Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal and the politician and diplomat Alva Myrdal, both Nobel laureates. Her paternal grandparents were distinguished Pennsylvania jurist Curtis Bok and Margaret Plummer Bok. [1]

Career

She served as associate professor of philosophy at Pomona College from 1997 to 2000. Bok was also a Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow at the Princeton University Center for Human Values from 1994 to 1995. Her areas of specialization are bioethics, moral philosophy, free will, and the works of Immanuel Kant. She is a faculty member of the Berman Institute of Bioethics. Bok is the author of Freedom and Responsibility (1998), a Kantian critique of libertarian theories of free will. More recently, she has written extensively about stem cell research, most notably in The Lancet .[ citation needed ]

Blogging

Bok blogged until 2009 under the pseudonym "hilzoy" at the well-known blogs Obsidian Wings [2] and "Political Animal" [3] (the blog of The Washington Monthly magazine). [4]

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References

  1. Derek Curtis Bok Biography | BookRags.com
  2. "Obsidian Wings"
  3. "Political Animal"
  4. "The XX Factor -- Sheltering Women: Linda Hirshman Responds to Hilzoy". Archived from the original on 2009-04-18. Retrieved 2009-04-14.