Anita Superson

Anita Superson is an American philosopher who is a professor of philosophy at the University of Kentucky.

Superson is currently a professor of philosophy at the University of Kentucky, where she has held an appointment since 1992. Her recent anthology attempts to document the impact that analytical feminism has made on mainstream philosophy in recent years. and Theorizing Backlash: Philosophical Reflections on the Resistance to Feminism, and published a number of peer-reviewed papers. In it, although Superson recognizes that there are problems inherent to the concept of justification, Superson still pursues the idea, believing it too central a part of philosophy to discard and that despite its problems, demonstrating that it is rational to be moral may have the effect of making people actually behave in a moral way. Superson believes that this model overlooks two important facts: first, that people often benefit from privilege in a way that cannot be captured by such a model, and second, that the theoretical moral skeptic's own preferences might be deformed by their own oppressive experiences (and thus fulfilling them may not actually maximize their own self-interest.)