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For the next year, Sanger continued to work on and promote both the Nupedia and Wikipedia projects until Bomis had to discontinue funding for his position in February 2002. Feeling that he could not do justice to the task as a part-time volunteer, Sanger resigned as editor-in-chief of Nupedia shortly thereafter [1]. Nupedia made little progress without his leadership and shut down the following year, but Wikipedia continued to grow and gain momentum.
Meanwhile, Sanger has rejoined the academic world and is currently a lecturer at Ohio State University, where he teaches philosophy courses. His professional interest is epistemologyEpistemology is the branch of philosophy that deals with the nature, origin and scope of knowledge. Definition of knowledge Justified true belief Plato's Theaetetus''. defined knowledge as justified true belief. One implication of this definition is that with concentrations in early modern philosophy17th-century Western philosophy is conventionally seen as being dominated by the coming of symbolic mathematics and rationalism to philosophy, many of the most noted philosophers were also mathematicians. Also called "The Age of Reason", some date the beg and ethicsEthics is a general term for what is often described as the " science of morality". In philosophy, ethical behavior is that which is " good". The Western tradition of ethics is sometimes called moral philosophy . This is one of the three major branches of. In his spare time, he plays and teaches Irish traditional musicIreland is an island in the North Atlantic politically divided between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. It is internationally known for its folk music, which has remained a vibrant tradition throughout the 20th century, when many traditional on the fiddle in ColumbusColumbus is the capital of the state of Ohio in the United States of America. The city is the largest in the state (when measured by city borders), with a population of 711,470 as of the 2000 census. According to recent U. census estimates, in Ohio only t and DaytonDayton is the county seat of Montgomery County, Ohio. As of the 2000 census, the city had a population of 166,179. The city is in the southwest quarter of the state. Most official and government designations place it in west-central Ohio. Name and history, OhioOhio is a Midwestern state in the northeastern corner of the United States. It was the first and eastern-most state in the Midwest admitted to the Union under the Northwest Ordinance. postal abbreviation is OH its old-style abbreviation is O. Ohio is an I.
Sanger received his B.A. in philosophy from Reed College in 1991 and Ph.D. in philosophy from Ohio State University in 2000, writing a thesis on Epistemic Circularity: An Essay on the Problem of Meta-Justification.
Sanger was the founder and executive editor of "Sanger's Review of Y2K News Reports" (formerly at sangersreview.com [2]), a resource for Y2K watchers, and also manages a site about the Donegal fiddle tradition.