Anita Silvers was born in Brooklyn, New York on November 1, 1940. She went to Girl Scout camp in 1949 and returned with a severe case of polio, which left her with partial quadriplegia. She received a bachelor's degree from Sarah Lawrence College in 1962 and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in 1967. She was a philosophy professor at San Francisco State University from 1967 until shortly before her death.
She was an authority on the interpretation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. She edited and wrote several books including Americans with Disabilities: Exploring Implications of the Law for Individuals and Institutions edited with Leslie P. Francis and Puzzles About Art: An Aesthetics Casebook written with Margaret P. Battin, John Fisher, and Ronald Moore. She died from pneumonia on March 14, 2019 at the age of 78.
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