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Peter Suber was born on 8 November, 1951 in Evanston, Illinois, U.S., is an American philosopher advocate of open access. Discover Peter Suber's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 72 years old?
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Evanston, Illinois, U.S. |
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United States
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Peter Suber Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Peter Suber's Wife?
His wife is Liffey Thorpe
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Peter Suber Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Peter Suber worth at the age of 72 years old? Peter Suber’s income source is mostly from being a successful philosopher. He is from United States. We have estimated Peter Suber's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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Peter Dain Suber (born November 8, 1951) is an American 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 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.
In 1997, he launched Hippias (later Noesis), a web search engine for the field of philosophy.
Lingua Franca magazine named Suber one of Academia's 20 Most Wired Faculty in 1999.
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, 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.
He has also written many articles on self-reference, ethics, formal and informal logic, the philosophy of law, and the history of philosophy.
He has written many articles on open access to science and scholarship.
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.
Since 2003, he and Thorpe have resided in Brooksville, Maine.
His mother was Grace Mary Stern, who served in both houses of the Illinois state legislature.
Readers of The Charleston Advisor gave him a special Readers' Choice Award in October 2006, "Non-Librarian Working for Our Cause."
Suber has directed the development of TagTeam since its start in 2011.
TagTeam is an open-source, social-tagging platform developed for the Harvard Open Access Project at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.
The American Library Association named him the winner of the Lyman Ray Patterson Copyright Award for 2011.
His 2012 book, Open Access, was published by MIT Press and released under a Creative Commons license.
Choice named his book on Open Access "an Outstanding Academic Title for 2013."
Suber is married to Liffey Thorpe, professor emerita of Classics at Earlham College, with whom he has two daughters.
