Sissela Bok

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Sissela Bok is a Swedish-born American philosopher and ethicist known for her influential work on lying, moral choice, and bioethics.

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instanceOf academic
author
ethicist
philosopher
public intellectual
academicDegree PhD in philosophy
awardReceived George Orwell Prize
surface form: George Orwell Award

Grawemeyer Award in Education
Moral Education Research Award
citizenship Sweden
United States of America
countryOfBirth Sweden
dateOfBirth 1934-12-02
educatedAt George Washington University
Harvard University
employer Brandeis University
Harvard University
familyName Bok
father Gunnar Myrdal NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork applied ethics
bioethics
ethics
moral philosophy
philosophy of lying
gender female
givenName Sissela
influencedBy Alva Myrdal NERFINISHED
Gunnar Myrdal NERFINISHED
Immanuel Kant
John Stuart Mill
languageOfWorkOrName English
Swedish
mother Alva Myrdal NERFINISHED
movement contemporary analytic ethics
name Sissela Bok self-link
notableIdea analysis of the ethics of lying
emphasis on common moral values across cultures
principle of publicity in ethics
notableWork Alva Myrdal
surface form: Alva Myrdal: A Daughter’s Memoir

Common Values
Exploring Happiness: From Aristotle to Brain Science
Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life
Mayhem: Violence as Public Entertainment
Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation
placeOfBirth Stockholm
positionHeld Professor of Philosophy at Brandeis University
Senior Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
residence United States of America
spouse Derek Bok

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Gunnar Myrdal child Sissela Bok
Sissela Bok name Sissela Bok self-link