Peter Suber
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Peter Suber in Brooksville, Maine, November 2009
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Born | citation needed] Evanston, Illinois |
November 8, 1951 [
Fields | Open access Philosophy Ethics Logic[1] |
Institutions | Northwestern University Earlham College Harvard University Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition Berkman Center for Internet & Society Wikimedia Foundation 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[2] Budapest Open Access Initiative |
Notable awards | Lyman Ray Patterson Copyright Award (2011)[3] |
Spouse | Liffey Thorpe |
Website cyber www cyber |
Peter Dain Suber (born November 8, 1951) is a philosopher specializing in the philosophy of law and open access to knowledge. He is fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and director of the Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication[4] and the Harvard Open Access Project (HOAP).[1][5][6] Suber is known as a leading voice in the open access movement,[7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15] and as the creator of the game Nomic.
Education
Suber graduated from Earlham College in 1973, received a PhD degree in philosophy in 1978 on Søren Kierkegaard[16] and a Juris Doctor degree in 1982, both from Northwestern University.
Career
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),.[17] He is a member of the Board of Enabling Open Scholarship,[18] 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.
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.
Suber participated in the 2001 meeting that led to the world's first major international open access initiative, the Budapest Open Access Initiative. He wrote Open Access News and the SPARC Open Access Newsletter, considered the most authoritative blog and newsletter on open access. He is also the founder of the Open Access Tracking Project, and co-founder, with Robin Peek, of the Open Access Directory.
In philosophy, Suber is the author of The Paradox of Self-Amendment,[19] the first book-length study of self-referential paradoxes in law, and The Case of the Speluncean Explorers: Nine New Opinions,[20] the first book-length "rehearing" of Lon Fuller's classic, fictional case. He has also written many articles on self-reference, ethics, formal and informal logic, the philosophy of law, and the history of philosophy.[21]
He has written many articles on open access to science and scholarship.[22] His 2012 book, Open Access, was published by MIT Press and released under a Creative Commons license.[2] His latest book is a collection of 44 of his most influential articles about open access, Knowledge Unbound: Selected Writings on Open Access, 2002–2010, also published by MIT Press under a Creative Commons license.[23]
Honours and awards
Lingua Franca magazine named Suber one of Academia's 20 Most Wired Faculty in 1999.[24] The American Library Association named him the winner of the Lyman Ray Patterson Copyright Award for 2011.[3] Choice named his book on Open Access[2] "an Outstanding Academic Title for 2013.".[25]
Personal life
Suber is married to Liffey Thorpe, professor emerita of Classics at Earlham College, with whom he has two daughters. Since 2003, he and Thorpe have resided in Brooksville, Maine.[26]
References
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External links
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- Suber's home page
- Suber's blog at Google Plus
- Open Access News (Suber's former blog, May 2002 - April 2010)
- SPARC Open Access Newsletter (SOAN) (Suber's newsletter)
- Peter Suber's Writings on Open Access
- Peter Suber's writings on philosophy and other subjects
- Harvard Open Access Project (HOAP)
- Open Access Directory (OAD)
- Open Access Tracking Project (OATP)
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