SLATE recently republished an article that first appeared in LINGUA FRANCA 14 years ago , the story about a wealthy man who wanted to shake up the world of academic philosophy, and in particular to argue about Being on the intellectual/historical plane of Spinoza or Hegel. The 'millionaire metaphysician' was Marc Sanders, and the L.F. piece makes THAT the big story. Sanders, whose photo you see here, had originally created a fog of anonymity around himself while appealing under his pen name to well credentialed philosophers, like Jan Cover of Purdue, to review his manuscript. Cover wrote: " One would be hard-pressed to locate a richer, deeper contemporary approach to the most fundamental questions of metaphysics ." So Sanders certainly succeeded in drawing attention. Reporter Ryerson wrote the story largely around the question "Who is this person?" The question, "What is his proposal as to the nature of Being" incident was secondary, a...