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.