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Mortimer J. Adler
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American philosopher, author and educator (1902–2001)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 28 Dec 1902
- Died
- 28 Jun 2001
- Works
- 202
Top works
- On general and liberal education
- How to Read a Book
- How to Read a Book
- How to Read a Book
- Saint Thomas and the Gentiles
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 68
- Total plays
- 394
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,497x
- Social Capital: Prospects for a New Concept
· 2002 · cited 22,890x
- Accurate structure prediction of biomolecular interactions with AlphaFold 3
· 2024 · cited 15,144x
- MDS clinical diagnostic criteria for Parkinson's disease
· 2015 · cited 7,006x
- Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,658x
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Quotes
- “The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.”
- “You can't be a philosopher and an activist. If you do, you get all mixed up.”
- “Unlike many of my contemporaries, I never write books for my fellow professors to read. I have no interest in the academic audience at all. I'm interested in Joe Doakes. A general audience can read any book I write – and they do.”
- “In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.”
- “The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.”
- “Too many facts are often as much of an obstacle to understanding as too few. There is a sense in which we moderns are inundated with facts to the detriment of understanding.”
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Key facts
- 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.
- Spouses
- Helen Leavenworth Boynton ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1927 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1960 ) Caroline Sage Pring ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1963 ; died 1998 )
- Education
- Columbia University (PhD)
- Era
- 20th-century philosophy
- Region
- Western philosophy
- School
- Aristotelianism Thomism
- Main interests
- Philosophical theology , metaphysics , ethics
- Notable works
- Aristotle for Everybody , How to Read a Book , A Syntopicon
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Mortimer Jerome Adler (/ˈædlər/; December 28, 1902 – June 28, 2001) was an American philosopher, educator, encyclopedist, author, and lay theologian. His philosophical work was situated within the Aristotelian and Thomistic traditions. Adler taught at Columbia University and the University of Chicago, served as chairman of the board of editors of Encyclopædia Britannica, and founded the Institute for Philosophical Research.
He resided for extended periods in New York City, Chicago, San Francisco, and San Mateo, California.
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