Larry Sanger
Larry Sanger
(
July 16,
1968-) is best known as a co-founder of
Wikipedia (with
Jimmy Wales). Sanger conceived and spearheaded the project, named it, formulated much of the original policy, and managed and promoted it in its first year. (See
history of Wikipedia.) Since leaving the employ of Wikipedia in February of
2002, he has rejoined the academic world and is currently a Lecturer at
Ohio State University, specializing in
epistemology and with concentrations in early modern philosophy and
ethics. In his spare time, he plays and teaches
Irish traditional music on the
fiddle in
Columbus and
Dayton, Ohio.
Sanger received his Ph.D in Philosophy from Ohio State University in 2000, writing a thesis on Epistemic Circularity: An Essay on the Problem of Meta-Justification. He was raised in Anchorage, Alaska and attended Reed College.
Sanger was the founder and executive editor of Sanger's Review of Y2K News Reports (formerly at sangersreview.com [1]), a resource for Y2K watchers, and also manages a site about the Donegal fiddle tradition.
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