[4] As a child, Silvers contracted polio and spent a year in an iron lung, leaving her with partial quadriplegia.
in 1962 from Sarah Lawrence College, and her PhD in Philosophy in 1967 from Johns Hopkins University.
[6] Silvers was a professor in, and former chair of, the Department of Philosophy at San Francisco State University, having been on the faculty from 1967.
[1] In 2013, she was awarded the Lebowitz Prize by the American Philosophical Association and Phi Beta Kappa society.
Discrimination: Perspectives on Justice in Bioethics and Public Policy (co-authored with David Wasserman and Mary Mahowald)[10] is widely cited in legal affairs.