Hilary Bok (born 1959) is an American philosopher currently serving as the Henry R. Luce Professor of Bioethics and Moral & Political Theory at Johns Hopkins University.
Hilary Bok | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1959 (age 66–67) |
| Awards | Laurance S. Rockefeller Fellowship |
| Education | |
| Education | Princeton University (BA) Harvard University (PhD) |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | 21st century Philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| Analytic philosophy | |
| Institutions | Johns Hopkins University |
Main interests | Moral theory, Bioethics |
Family
editHer 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
editBok received a B.A. in philosophy from Princeton University in 1981 and her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1991.
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. In addition, she has published work on stem cell research, including in The Lancet.[2]
Blogging
editBok blogged until 2009 under the pseudonym "hilzoy" at the well-known blogs Obsidian Wings[3] and "Political Animal"[4] (the blog of The Washington Monthly magazine).[5]
References
edit- ↑ Derek Curtis Bok Biography | BookRags.com
- ↑ Bok, Hilary; Schill, Kathryn E.; Faden, Ruth R. (2004-07-10). "Justice, ethnicity, and stem-cell banks". The Lancet. 364 (9429): 118–121. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(04)16650-6. ISSN 0140-6736. PMID 15246711.
- ↑ "Obsidian Wings"
- ↑ "Political Animal"
- ↑ "The XX Factor -- Sheltering Women: Linda Hirshman Responds to Hilzoy". Archived from the original on 2009-04-18. Retrieved 2009-04-14.
External links
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- Bok's page at Johns Hopkins University
- Princeton University Press page on Freedom and Responsibility
- Bok's page at Berman Institute of Bioethics
- "Justice, ethnicity, and stem-cell banks" co-written with Kathryn Schill and Ruth Faden, The Lancet, July 10, 2004, v364 i9429 p118 retrieved 17 December 2005
- Appearances on C-SPAN