Larry Sanger
Larry Sanger is best known as co-founder and the original organizer of Wikipedia. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of Citizendium, a wiki encyclopedia project that combines public participation with gentle expert guidance, and requires real names of all contributors. The Citizendium project added over 7,000 articles and over 6 million words in a little over a year. Sanger has frequently spoken and written about collaborative content and related subjects. He has also taught philosophy, specializing in epistemology, at Ohio State University. Dr. Sanger grew up in Anchorage, Alaska, received his B.A. in philosophy from Reed College in 1991 and his Ph.D. in philosophy from Ohio State University in 2000. He has also been a teacher of Irish traditional music on the fiddle.
The Internet and the Future of Civilization
Larry Sanger - July 30, 2008
The part of the Your Brain Online debate that I am interested in is this question: Does Web 2.0, or whatever you want to call it, mean the end of the Great Books or of liberal education? And is anybody really saying that it does mean that? Let's get clear on what the problem here is ...
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A Defense of Tolstoy & the Individual Thinker: A Reply to Clay Shirky
Larry Sanger - July 18, 2008
I want to respond to Clay Shirky. I've read War and Peace twice. It's one of my very favorite novels, and I love it---it's enormously interesting. In Clay's view, it seems, the new speed and deeply social nature of intellectual discourse means that, soon, the only relevant discourse will occur in blog- or Twitter-sized chunks. Is this the hip "upstart literature," proudly "diverse, contemporary, and vulgar," that is now "the new high culture"? If so, God help us.
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