Education
Bok received a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Princeton University in 1981 and her Doctor of Philosophy from Harvard University in 1991.
Bok received a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Princeton University in 1981 and her Doctor of Philosophy from Harvard University in 1991.
She served as Associate Professor of Philosophy at Pomona College from 1997 to 2000. Bok was also a Laurance South. 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.
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. Her paternal grandparents were the distinguished Pennsylvania jurist Curtis Bok, and Margaret Plummer Bok.
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).
She is a faculty member of the Berman Institute of Bioethics.
