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Mortimer J. Adler

Mortimer J. Adler
Mortimer J. Adler, American philosopher and author (d. 2001)

Mortimer Jerome Adler was an American philosopher, educator, encyclopedist, and popular author. As a philosopher he worked within the Aristotelian and Thomistic traditions. He taught at Columbia University and the University of Chicago, served as chairman of the Encyclopædia Britannica board of editors, and founded the Institute for Philosophical Research.

28 December 1902

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