Hilary Bok (born 1959) is the Henry R. Luce Professor of Bioethics and Moral & Political Theory at the Johns Hopkins University. Bok received a B.A. in philosophy from Princeton University in 1981 and her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1991. 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. 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. Blogging Bok blogged until 2009 under the pseudonym "hilzoy" at the well-known blogs Obsidian Wings and "Political Animal" (the blog of The Washington Monthly magazine). References External links 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 1959 births Living people 21st-century American philosophers 20th-century American philosophers American women philosophers Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Johns Hopkins University faculty Princeton University alumni American people of Swedish descent American women bloggers American bloggers 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American women writers Kant scholars Bioethicists Pomona College faculty American women non-fiction writers 21st-century American non-fiction writers American people of Dutch descent