Samantha Wynne Vice (born 12 March 1973) is a South African philosopher who is distinguished professor of philosophy at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits).
Born in South Africa, Vice completed her bachelor's and master's at Rhodes University.
In 2003, she completed a PhD in philosophy at the University of Reading, which she attended on a Commonwealth Scholarship.
'", published in the Journal of Social Philosophy while she was a senior lecturer at Rhodes, argued that shame and guilt were appropriate responses to the experience of white people in post-apartheid South Africa; she argued that white people were "even if unavoidably — a continuing product of white privilege and benefiting from it, implicated in and enacting injustice in many subtle ways".
[5] After Eusebius McKaiser published a commentary on the article in the mainstream press,[6] her argument sparked heated public debate;[7] the Mail & Guardian published a special report and series of responses,[8] and the Wits Centre for Ethics hosted a seminar on the paper, with a panel comprising Vice, McKaiser, constitutional law scholar Pierre de Vos, and philosophers Ward Jones and David Benatar.