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Peter Suber

Peter Suber
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Peter Suber in Brooksville, Maine, November 2009
Born (1951-11-08) November 8, 1951 (age 65)
Evanston, Illinois
Fields Open access
Philosophy
Ethics
Logic
Institutions Northwestern University
Earlham College
Harvard University
Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society

Open Knowledge Foundation
Public Knowledge
Alma mater Northwestern University
Thesis Kierkegaard's Concept of Irony especially in relation to Freedom, Personality and Dialectic (1978)
Doctoral advisor William A. Earle
Known for Nomic
Open access
Budapest Open Access Initiative
Notable awards Lyman Ray Patterson Copyright Award (2011)
Spouse Liffey Thorpe
Website

www.earlham.edu/~peters
cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/psuber

Peter Dain Suber (born November 8, 1951) is a philosopher specializing in the philosophy of law and open access to knowledge. He is a Senior Researcher at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Director of the Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication, and Director of the Harvard Open Access Project (HOAP). Suber is known as a leading voice in the open access movement, and as the creator of the game Nomic.

Suber graduated from Earlham College in 1973, received a PhD degree in philosophy in 1978, writing a dissertation on Søren Kierkegaard and a Juris Doctor degree in 1982, both from Northwestern University.

Previously, Suber was senior research professor of philosophy at Earlham College, the open access project director at Public Knowledge, a senior researcher at Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC),. He is a member of the Board of Enabling Open Scholarship, the Advisory Boards at the , the Open Knowledge Foundation, and the advisory boards of other organizations devoted to open access and an information commons.

Suber worked as a stand-up comic from 1976 to 1981, including an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson in 1976. Suber returned to Earlham College as a professor from 1982 to 2003 where he taught classes on philosophy, law, logic, and Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, among other topics.


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