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Swedish-American philosopher

Sissela Bok (born Myrdal; 2 December ) is a Swedish-born American philosopher and ethicist, the daughter of two Nobel Prize winners: Gunnar Myrdal who won the Economics prize with Friedrich Hayek in , and Alva Myrdal who won the Nobel Peace Prize in She is considered one of the premier American women moral philosophers of the latter part of the 20th century.^[1]

Biography

Bok received her B.A.

and M.A. in psychology from George Washington University in and , and her Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard University in She worked at Simmons University (–72), the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology (–82), Brandeis University (–92), and the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies at the Harvard School of Public Health (–).^[2][1]

Bok is married to Derek Bok, former president (&#;, interim &#;) of Harvard.

Her daughter, Hilary Bok, is also a philosopher. Her brother, Jan Myrdal, w