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== Other current affiliations ==
== Other current affiliations ==
* Here are some affiliations other than the [[#My_work_and_primary_affiliations|primary affiliations]] above (most recent first):
* Here are some affiliations other than the [[#My_work_and_primary_affiliations|primary affiliations]] above (most recent first):
<!-- ** Member of the [https://www.futureofphilosophy.org/about-this-initiative Planning Committee] for the [https://www.futureofphilosophy.org Independent Philosophy Institute]. -->
** Member of the [https://www.futureofphilosophy.org/about-this-initiative Planning Committee] for the [https://www.futureofphilosophy.org Independent Philosophy Institute].
<!-- the work started in October 2022; the initiative went public in October 2025 -->
<!-- the work started in October 2022; the initiative went public in October 2025 -->
** Advisor to [https://www.coursetexts.org/ Coursetexts].
** Advisor to [https://www.coursetexts.org/ Coursetexts].
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** Member of the [https://core.ac.uk/governance/advisory Advisory Board] of [https://core.ac.uk/ Connecting Repositories] (CORE).
** Member of the [https://core.ac.uk/governance/advisory Advisory Board] of [https://core.ac.uk/ Connecting Repositories] (CORE).
<!-- since April 7, 2023 -->
<!-- since April 7, 2023 -->
** Member of the [https://openclimatecampaign.org/about-us/ Steering Committee] of the [https://openclimatecampaign.org/ Open Climate Campaign] (OCC).
** [https://independenttechresearch.org/members/ Member] of the [https://independenttechresearch.org/ Coalition for Independent Technology Research] (CITR).
** [https://independenttechresearch.org/members/ Member] of [https://independenttechresearch.org/ Coalition for Independent Technology Research] (CITR).
<!-- since Dec 9, 2022 -->
<!-- since Dec 9, 2022 -->
** [https://incentivizingopen.org/Team/ Strategist] for [https://incentivizingopen.org/ Incentivizing Collaborative and Open Research] (ICOR).
** [https://incentivizingopen.org/Team/ Strategist] for [https://incentivizingopen.org/ Incentivizing Collaborative and Open Research] (ICOR).
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<!-- older URL for advisory council membership = https://osf.io/zb9g6/wiki/home/ -->
<!-- older URL for advisory council membership = https://osf.io/zb9g6/wiki/home/ -->
<!-- when I started with them, called Library Partnership Certification; since renamed Library Partnership Rating -->
<!-- when I started with them, called Library Partnership Certification; since renamed Library Partnership Rating -->
** Member of the [https://openclimatecampaign.org/about-us/ Steering Committee] of the [https://openclimatecampaign.org/ Open Climate Campaign] (OCC).
<!-- OCC launched 8/30/22; I joined the steering committee sometime before April 2021 -->
** Member of the Review Committee for the [https://council.science/ International Science Council] (ISC), for its March 2021 report on [https://council.science/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/2020-02-19-Opening-the-record-of-science.pdf Opening the Record of Science].
** Member of the Review Committee for the [https://council.science/ International Science Council] (ISC), for its March 2021 report on [https://council.science/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/2020-02-19-Opening-the-record-of-science.pdf Opening the Record of Science].
<!-- starting May 2020;  
<!-- starting May 2020;  
no explicit end date; but I assume my role ended when ISC released the doc I reviewed (link above), March 2021  -->
no explicit end date; but I assume my role ended when ISC released the doc I reviewed (link above), March 2021  -->
** [https://tspoa.org/about/steering-membership/ Member] of [https://tspoa.org/ Transitioning Society Publications to OA] (TSPOA).
<!-- since Nov 2018 -->
** Member of the [https://web.archive.org/web/20191209215514/https://www.fairopenaccess.org/who-we-are/people/ Board] of the [https://www.fairopenaccess.org/ Fair Open Access Alliance] (FOAA)
** Member of the [https://web.archive.org/web/20191209215514/https://www.fairopenaccess.org/who-we-are/people/ Board] of the [https://www.fairopenaccess.org/ Fair Open Access Alliance] (FOAA)
<!-- started August 2017; stepped down December 9, 2019 -->
<!-- started August 2017; stepped down December 9, 2019 -->
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** Member of the [http://www.textop.org/advisory_committee.html Advisory Committee] of the [http://www.textop.org/ Text Outline Project]
** Member of the [http://www.textop.org/advisory_committee.html Advisory Committee] of the [http://www.textop.org/ Text Outline Project]
** Member of the [http://www.oaklaw.qut.edu.au/advisorygroup Advisory Group] of the [http://www.oaklaw.qut.edu.au/ Open Access to Knowledge Law Project]
** Member of the [http://www.oaklaw.qut.edu.au/advisorygroup Advisory Group] of the [http://www.oaklaw.qut.edu.au/ Open Access to Knowledge Law Project]
** [http://web.archive.org/web/20081104213105/http://okfn.org/wiki/MapOfOpenness Partner of the Map of Openness Project, Open Knowledge Foundation]
<!-- since August 2008 -->
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20071221074125/https://opened.shuttleworthfoundation.org/wiki/Group_of_stewards Steward] of the [https://www.capetowndeclaration.org/ Cape Town Open Education Declaration]
<!-- from before launch in Sept 2007 -->
** Member of the [http://eexplor.org/open-culture/scicomm Scientific Committee] of [http://eexplor.org/open-culture/ Open Culture]  
** Member of the [http://eexplor.org/open-culture/scicomm Scientific Committee] of [http://eexplor.org/open-culture/ Open Culture]  
<!-- since 11/8/06 -->
<!-- since 11/8/06 -->

Latest revision as of 14:00, 24 October 2025

This wiki page has been my main home page since June 2013.

My work and primary affiliations

  • I work for the free circulation of knowledge and research in every field and region. In practice that means education, collaboration, research, writing, speaking, tool-building, direct assistance, and pro bono consulting for open access. I wear two hats:
  • My primary field is philosophy (Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1978). I'm also a non-practicing lawyer (J.D., Northwestern, 1982).

Writings

 

My latest book is Knowledge Unbound (MIT Press, 2016). It's available in paperback, hardback, and many open-access editions (same text, different file formats).

 

My last book before that is Open Access (MIT Press, 2012). It's available in paperback and many open-access editions (same text, different file formats). I keep it alive with frequent updates and supplements. Choice named Open Access an Outstanding Academic Title for 2013.
  • Nearly all my publications are open access from my DASH (the Harvard open-access repository), my old Earlham web site, a publisher's site, or some combination of these.
    • One kind of exception is an older, print-only publication for which I don't yet have a digital edition. Over the years I've gradually created digital editions where I didn't have them, and I'm nearly done.
    • Another kind of exception is a work for which I have a digital edition but not permission for open access. The only exception of this kind is The Case of the Speluncean Explorers: Nine New Opinions (Routledge, 1998). I published it before I started thinking hard about OA. I've asked Routledge to make the book OA, but it declined. I'm still willing to do so as soon as Routledge is. If Routledge doesn't make it OA while the book is still in print, then I'll make it OA as soon is it goes out of print, or as soon as I can revert the rights, whichever comes first.

Academic interests

  • When I was a philosophy prof (1982-2003), I specialized in Kant and German idealism; the history of modern European philosophy, roughly from Montaigne to Nietzsche; the history of western skepticism from Socrates to the 20th century; epistemological and ethical issues related to skepticism, such as fictionalism, ideology, self-deception, and the ethics of belief; the logical, epistemological, ethical, and legal problems of self-reference; the metatheory of first-order logic; the ethics of paternalism, consent, and coercion; and the philosophy of law. I retain an interest in all these topics, and have since added some new ones: the connections between ancient Greek skepticism and Indian Buddhism (via Pyrrho), the naturalization of ethics, and concepts of randomness.
  • Since 2001 my interests have centered on policies, practices, and technologies that foster research, especially those that foster open access to research and the growth, quality, use, reuse, and usefulness of research. In addition to promoting these policies, practices, and technologies, I want to understand how the internet has changed research, how it ought to change research, and what it would mean to take full advantage of the internet for research.

Other current affiliations

Past affiliations

  • I was a professor of philosophy at Earlham College for 21 years (1982-2003). I also taught computer science and law. When I stepped down in 2003 to work full-time on OA, I was a tenured senior professor. I'm now a professor emeritus.

Social media

  • On X/Twitter I'm @petersuber. I stopped regular posting when Elon Musk took over in late 2022.
    • I'm not deleting my account for two reasons. First, most of my posts are about open access and scholarly communication. I wrote them to inform and influence the OA movement and hope they might still be useful. Second, I don't want to let a troll pick up my username.
    • If the account disappears, try this (imperfect) Archive-It archive of it. Much of my account is also backed up in the Internet Archive.
  • Blogging
    • From May 2002 to April 2010, I blogged heavily at Open Access News (OAN), about 18,000 posts over 8 years, with occasional blogging partners. OAN was my attempt to stay on top of all that was happening with OA and share what I learned. It was useful while it lasted, but it didn't scale with the growth of OA. That failure to scale led me to launch the crowd-sourced, tag-based Open Access Tracking Project in 2009, and lay down my blog about a year later. I explained why I was making the transition in a May 2009 article in my newsletter. OAN is preserved and searchable in several places, including Archive-It and the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. See more details here.
    • From July 2011 to April 2019, I blogged lightly at Google+, about 1,200 posts over 8 years. Google pulled the plug on G+ in April 2019 and deleted all the posts. Here's an (imperfect) Archive-It archive of my posts. I also saved many posts to the Internet Archive and nearly all of them to Conifer. Here's a subset of them. More details here.
    • In May 2020 I started a new blog on PubPub. But I seldom post.

Related pages

Contacting me

  • My primary email addresses are peter_suber@harvard.edu and peter.suber@gmail.com.
    • I also use <psuber@cyber.law.harvard.edu> and <peter_suber@g.harvard.edu>.
    • I'm phasing out <psuber@law.harvard.edu>, <psuber@cyber.harvard.edu>, and <peters@earlham.edu>. If you have them in your address book, please replace them with one of the above.
  • Email is the best way to reach me. To contact me by phone, text, Zoom, snail mail, or some other way, send me an email and I'll tell you how.
  • To contact me on an encrypted platform, signal.me.
  • All my Harvard work is now remote. It's no longer possible to meet F2F in Cambridge, call me at an office phone number, or send me snail mail to a campus address.


"To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher."

     Pascal, Pensées.
     Trans. A.J. Krailsheimer, Penguin, 1966, §513

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