Philosophy professor Anita Silvers PhD of San Francisco State University was a disability rights advocate.Polio left her with partial quadriplegia. Her brother, David Silvers said in 1949 she went to Girl Scout camp and returned with a severe case of polio. This lead her to a lifelong mission on disability rights. After receiving a bachelor’s degree at Sarah Lawrence College in 1962, she earned a Ph.D. in philosophy at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in 1967 and was hired to teach philosophy at San Francisco State. Dr. Silvers’s expertise in aesthetics led President Jimmy Carter to appoint her to the National Council on the Humanities in 1980. In addition to aesthetics and the rights of people with disabilities, Dr. Silvers wrote about assisted suicide, feminist issues, medical ethics, the evolving field of discrimination based on genetics, and more. In 1989 she and three co-authors, Margaret P. Battin, John Fisher and Ronald Moore, published “Puzzles About Art: An Aesthetics Casebook.”
Philosophy professor Anita Silvers PhD of San Francisco State University was a disability rights advocate.Polio left her with partial quadriplegia. Her brother, David Silvers said in 1949 she went to Girl Scout camp and returned with a severe case of polio. This lead her to a lifelong mission on disability rights. After receiving a bachelor’s degree at Sarah Lawrence College in 1962, she earned a Ph.D. in philosophy at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in 1967 and was hired to teach philosophy at San Francisco State. Dr. Silvers’s expertise in aesthetics led President Jimmy Carter to appoint her to the National Council on the Humanities in 1980. In addition to aesthetics and the rights of people with disabilities, Dr. Silvers wrote about assisted suicide, feminist issues, medical ethics, the evolving field of discrimination based on genetics, and more. In 1989 she and three co-authors, Margaret P. Battin, John Fisher and Ronald Moore, published “Puzzles About Art: An Aesthetics Casebook.”
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