14 Facts About Peter Suber

Peter Dain Suber was born on November 8,1951 and is a philosopher specializing in the philosophy of law and open access to knowledge.

Previously, Peter 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,.

Peter Suber is a member of the Board of Enabling Open Scholarship, the Advisory Boards at the Wikimedia Foundation, the Open Knowledge Foundation, and the advisory boards of other organizations devoted to open access and an information commons.

Peter Suber worked as a stand-up comic from 1976 to 1981, including an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson in 1976.

Peter 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.

Peter Suber participated in the 2001 meeting that led to the world's first major international open access initiative, the Budapest Open Access Initiative.

Peter Suber wrote Open Access News and the SPARC Open Access Newsletter, considered the most authoritative blog and newsletter on open access.

Peter Suber is the founder of the Open Access Tracking Project, and co-founder, with Robin Peek, of the Open Access Directory.

In philosophy, Peter Suber is the author of The Paradox of Self-Amendment, the first book-length study of self-referential paradoxes in law, and The Case of the Speluncean Explorers: Nine New Opinions, the first book-length "rehearing" of Lon Fuller's classic, fictional case.

Peter Suber has written many articles on self-reference, ethics, formal and informal logic, the philosophy of law, and the history of philosophy.

Peter Suber has written many articles on open access to science and scholarship.

Peter Suber has directed the development of TagTeam since its start in 2011.

Peter Suber is married to Liffey Thorpe, professor emerita of Classics at Earlham College, with whom he has two daughters.

Peter Suber's mother was Grace Mary Stern, who served in both houses of the Illinois state legislature.