Larry Sanger

Larry Sanger (born July 16, 1968) is best known as the cofounder 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 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] (http://web.archive.org/web/20001025181634/http%3A//www.sangersreview.com/)), a resource for Y2K watchers, and also manages a site about the Donegal fiddle tradition.

External links

• Academic home page of Larry Sanger (http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/sanger3/)
• Wikipedia user page of Larry Sanger (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Larry_Sanger)
• Columns about Wikipedia written by Sanger (http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Larry_Sanger) ("possibly outdated" he says)
• Donegal Fiddle Pages (http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6464/hmpg.html).
• Epistemic Circularity: An Essay on the Problem of Meta-Justification (http://enlightenment.supersaturated.com/essays/text/larrysanger/diss/index.html)
• Introductory philosophy lectures from Sanger's 1998 course at Ohio State University (many of these have been greatly edited from Sanger's originals--"as they should be" he says).