[1]  Interest and relevance of the Project

     Persons interested in the comparative and historical
study of philosophies, religions, civilizations and cultures
will be able to appreciate and benefit from the Plott project
in the global history of philosophy.  The project possesses
both a published and unpublished corpus, a completed and
ongoing task, and a written, oral, and now Internet set of
traditions.
     Hajime Nakamura is the author of highly authoritative
works which in some respects parallel the Plott project as
found in the five volumes of Global History of Philosophy.
In his preface for Plott's Volume III, Nakamura writes, "Now
we see a colossal, gigantic work by Professor Plott.  He has
traced the development of philosophy in a wider scope than my
work, referring to numerous countries."
     Wallace Gray, the present coordinator of the project
since the death of Plott in 1990, adds to Nakamura's
statement an assessment of today's intellectual and cultural
readiness for some kind of continuance of the project:  "The
hour for more integrative multidisciplinary approaches to
every topic of human significance has finally struck just on
the eve of the next century and the new millenium.  The
pieces were not quite in place during Plott's lifetime; now
we begin to see more of them intermeshing and interacting
in patterns that one does not have to be a genius to
recognize and respond to."
	Dr. David B. Kelley, a Ph.D. in linguistics, has found
the Plott Project useful because of its depth.  His own recent
specialized work is in the area of possible cultural diffusion be-
tween China and Mesoamerica.  For his web site click here.