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** [http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/csepref.htm Preface and Introduction]. Full text and open access.   
** [http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/csepref.htm Preface and Introduction]. Full text and open access.   
** My contract with Routledge prevents me from making the rest of the text open access.  However, I've created an open-access [http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/cse.htm page] of assignment ideas for teachers, errata, and other auxiliary content.
** My contract with Routledge prevents me from making the rest of the text open access.  However, I've created an open-access [http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/cse.htm page] of assignment ideas for teachers, errata, and other auxiliary content.
* [http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/courses/argstages.htm Stages of Argument], 2000. A description of four stages of sophistication in argument, for use by teachers who evaluate arguments and must communicate their evaluations in a way that helps the authors improve.


* [http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/infinity.htm Infinite Reflections] and its appendix, [http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/infapp.htm A Crash Course in the Mathematics of Infinite Sets], ''St. John's Review'', XLIV, 2 (1998) 1-59.
* [http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/infinity.htm Infinite Reflections] and its appendix, [http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/infapp.htm A Crash Course in the Mathematics of Infinite Sets], ''St. John's Review'', XLIV, 2 (1998) 1-59.
* [http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/courses/log/transtip.htm Translation Tips for the Language of First Order Logic], 1998. Rules and tips for translating from English into logical notation.


* [http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/homofone.htm An English Homophone Dictionary], 1998. At one time the largest on the web, but no longer updated.  Made in collaboration with A.L.P. Thorpe.
* [http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/homofone.htm An English Homophone Dictionary], 1998. At one time the largest on the web, but no longer updated.  Made in collaboration with A.L.P. Thorpe.
* [http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/wirewise/index.htm WireWise], April 1998 - April 1999.  An occasional newsletter of tips for academic web users that I write with [http://www.earlham.edu/~liffeyt/alpp.html Liffey Thorpe].


* [http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/greece.htm Greece on the Atlantic], 1998. An idle explication of the geographic isomorphism of Greece and the Blue Hill Peninsula in Maine.
* [http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/greece.htm Greece on the Atlantic], 1998. An idle explication of the geographic isomorphism of Greece and the Blue Hill Peninsula in Maine.
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* [http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/philstat.htm The Place of Philosophy in the Humanities: A Statistical Profile], ''Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association'', 55, 3 (February 1982) 417-23. This was a print-only publication, and so far I've only had time to rekey the abstract.
* [http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/philstat.htm The Place of Philosophy in the Humanities: A Statistical Profile], ''Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association'', 55, 3 (February 1982) 417-23. This was a print-only publication, and so far I've only had time to rekey the abstract.
 
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For some reason I posted the following pieces without dates. (Why? I would never do that today, and I thought I've always had this scruple. But apparently not.) As I find time to reconstruct their dates, I'll move them to the reverse chronological list above. Meantime, they're in this alphabetical list.
 
 
* [http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/twitchell.htm Commonwealth v. Twitchell]. My HTML edition of the text of the appellate court opinions, 617 N.E.2d 609 (1993).  Lightly edited for non-lawyers.
 
* [http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/mozert.htm Mozert v. Hawkins City Board of Education]. My HTML edition of the text of the Circuit Court opinions, 827 F.2d 1058 (1987).  Lightly edited for non-lawyers.
 
 
 
* [http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/courses/argstages.htm Stages of Argument]. A description of four stages of sophistication in argument, for use by teachers and others who would benefit from a framework for the rapid diagnosis and evaluation of argument strategies.
 
* [http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/disobey.htm Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience"]. An electronic version of Thoreau's text that I corrected by close comparison with Walter Harding's critical edition.
 
* [http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/courses/log/transtip.htm Translation Tips for the Language of First Order Logic]. Rules and tips for translating from English into logical notation.
 
* [http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/wirewise/index.htm WireWise].  An occasional newsletter of tips for academic web users that I write with [http://www.earlham.edu/~liffeyt/alpp.html Liffey Thorpe].
 
* [http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/courses/re/women.htm Women Philosophers of the 17th and 18th Centuries].  Bibliographic notes for students in my course on 17th and 18th century philosophy.
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<!-- * [http://www.earlham.edu/~hum/handbook.html#argument A Word on Argument and Inquiry].  An appendix to the [http://www.earlham.edu/~hum/handbook.html handbook] for students in Earlham's Humanities Program. -->
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* [http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/mozert.htm Mozert v. Hawkins City Board of Education]. My HTML edition of the text of the Circuit Court opinions, 827 F.2d 1058 (1987).  Lightly edited for non-lawyers.
* [http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/disobey.htm Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience"]. An electronic version of Thoreau's text that I corrected by close comparison with Walter Harding's critical edition. -->

Revision as of 15:53, 28 March 2014

This bibliography covers nearly all of my public or published pieces on topics other than open access. It covers my work in philosophy and law (my academic fields), as well as some more personal and playful pieces not suitable for academic publishing. It includes formally published work as well as some work I wrote directly for the web. It includes books, journal articles, and preprints, and omits course handouts and minor pieces like blog posts, listserv messages, letters to editors, presentation slides, and small web pages. I plan to keep it up to date, though I'm still trying to catch up by posting unposted pieces from years ago. &#151; Peter Suber.

  • This version of the list consolidates and supersedes two earlier lists (one and two).
  • Suggested short URL for this page = bit.ly/suber-writings.
  • For my work on open access and scholarly communication, see my separate list of writings on open access.
  • For my courses and course handouts, see my separate list of courses.
  • Search these writings. (Unfortunately this Google custom search engine is broken and I haven't been able to get any help from Google. If you have any ideas, please let me know.)



Most recent first.

  • Knot Tying Notation, July 2002. A "programming language" to record the steps in a knot tying method.
  • Articles on * Amendment (I.31-32), Civil Disobedience (I.110-113),Paternalism (II.632-635), and Self-Reference in Law (II.790-792), in Christopher Berry Gray (ed.), Philosophy of Law:  An Encyclopedia, Garland Pub. Co., 1999. (I apologize for the condensed prose in these articles. I had very little space in which to work.)
  • Stages of Argument, 2000. A description of four stages of sophistication in argument, for use by teachers who evaluate arguments and must communicate their evaluations in a way that helps the authors improve.
  • WireWise, April 1998 - April 1999. An occasional newsletter of tips for academic web users that I write with Liffey Thorpe.
  • Greece on the Atlantic, 1998. An idle explication of the geographic isomorphism of Greece and the Blue Hill Peninsula in Maine.
  • Notes on Logic Notation on the Web, 1998. Tracking proposals and progress in getting support for logic notation into a future version of HTML, and methods for bypassing HTML.
  • Six Exploding Knots, 1997.
    • This article has been translated into Dutch by Pieter van de Griend, "Zes Exploderende Knopen," Het Knoopeknauwertje, 9 (December 1997) 8-13.
  • Knot So Fast, 1997. A proposal for regulating the world knot tying speed record.
  • Classical Skepticism, 1996. An exposition of Pyrrhonian skepticism, based on the writings of Sextus Empiricus, with replies to common objections, and a sketch of how this form of skepticism evolved and mutated in western intellectual history.
  • When We Leave Our Desks. My baccalaureate address at Earlham College, June 1992. An essay on metaphilosophy in disguise.
  • The Paradox of Liberation, 1992. Variations on the theme that one is not free until one freely chooses to become free. I find traces of the theme in Kant, Dennett, and Mill, and show their strategies for preventing the claim from becoming a contradiction.
  • The Reflexivity of Change:  The Case of Language Norms, Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 3, 2 (1989) 100-129.
    • This essay has been translated into German by Bertram Kienzle, "Die Reflexivität des Wandels:  Der Fall der Sprachnormen," in Bertram Kienzle and Helmut Pape (eds.), Dimensionen des Selbst:  Selbstbewußtsein, Reflexivität und die Bedingungen von Kommunikation, Suhrkamp Verlag, 1991, pp. 179-219.
    • Second thoughts.
  • Mind and Baud Rate, 1989. Questions, speculations, and meditations on the relation between the speed of bit-switching and the emergence of intelligence and selfhood.
  • Becoming Free. My baccalaureate address at Earlham College, June 1987.
  • "A Bibliography of Works on Reflexivity," in Bartlett and Suber (1987), below, pp. 259-362. I'll put this online after I convert it from the ancient word processor in which it was written.
  • Self-Reference:  Reflections on Reflexivity, Co-edited with Steven J. Bartlett. Martinus Nijhoff, 1987. An interdisciplinary anthology of essays.
    • I only plan to put my contributions to this volume online. See previous two items.
  • The Problem of Beginning. I wrote this article in the mid-1980's and put it online in December 2001. A survey of the methods philosophers have used to justify their point of departure or avoid the need to justify it.
  • Against the Sanctity of Life. I wrote this article in the mid-1980s and put it online in 1996. An attempt to articulate and criticize the position underlying much of the "right-to-life" movement; some nuanced "pro-life" positions are compatible with this critique.
  • GradeSheet:  A Spreadsheet for Teachers, Sorcim/IUS Micro Software Inc., November 1984. I wrote this for CP/M machines. Let it rest in peace.
  • Nomic:  A Game That Explores the Reflexivity of Law, Scientific American, 246, 6 (June 1982) 16-28. A game with commentary embedded in column by Douglas R. Hofstadter. Reprinted, sometimes in revised versions, in many languages and many media.

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