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Sissela Bok
Swedish-American philosopher · United States · On the map · Academics · Born 1934 · age 91
Sissela Bok 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 1974, and Alva Myrdal who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982.
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She is considered one of the premier American moral philosophers of the latter part of the 20th century.
