Peter Suber

Peter Dain Suber (born November 8, 1951) is an American philosopher specializing in the philosophy of law and open access to knowledge.

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.

[16] His 2012 book, Open Access, was published by MIT Press and released under a Creative Commons license.

[19] The American Library Association named him the winner of the Lyman Ray Patterson Copyright Award for 2011.

Peter Suber at the 10th anniversary meeting of the Budapest Open Access Initiative in February 2012.