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Lawrence Mark Sanger is an American Internet project developer and philosopher who co-founded the online encyclopedia Wikipedia along with Jimmy Wales. Sanger coined the name and wrote much of Wikipedia's original governing policy. Sanger has worked on other online projects, including
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See moreLawrence Mark Sanger was born in Bellevue, Washington, on July 16, 1968. His father Gerry was a marine biologist who studied seabirds and his mother raised the children. When he was seven years old, his family moved to
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See moreNupedia was a web-based encyclopedia whose articles were written by volunteer contributors possessing relevant subject matter expertise and
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At the Wizards of OS conference in September 2006, Sanger announced the launch of a new wiki-based encyclopedia called Citizendium—short for "citizens' compendium"—as a fork of Wikipedia. The objective of the fork was...
See moreSince 2002, Sanger has been critical of Wikipedia.
Accuracy, credibility and expertise
In December 2004, writing for the Kuro5hin website, he commented that Wikipedia is not considered credible by librarians, teachers, and academics...
See moreLarry Sanger has a doctorate in Philosophy from Ohio State University. His professional interests are epistemology, early modern philosophy, and ethics. Most of Sanger's philosophical
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• Epistemic Circularity: An Essay on the Problem of Meta-Justification – doctoral thesis.
• Descartes' methods and their theoretical background –...
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