Mortimer J. Adler

Mortimer J. Adler
Adler while presiding over the Center for the Study of The Great Ideas
Born	Mortimer Jerome Adler (1902-12-28)December 28, 1902 New York City, U.S.
Died	June 28, 2001(2001-06-28) (aged 98) San Mateo, California, U.S.
Education	Columbia University (PhD)
Notable work	Aristotle for Everybody, How to Read a Book, A Syntopicon
Spouses	Helen Leavenworth Boynton ​ ​ (m. 1927; div. 1960)​ Caroline Sage Pring ​ ​ (m. 1963; died 1998)​
Era	20th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Aristotelianism Thomism
Main interests	Philosophical theology, metaphysics, ethics

Mortimer Jerome Adler (December 28, 1902 – June 28, 2001) was an American philosopher, educator, encyclopedist, popular author and lay theologian. 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.

He lived for long stretches in New York City, Chicago, San Francisco, and San Mateo, California.^[1]