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PHILOSOPHER

Mortimer J. Adler

1902 - 2001

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Mortimer Jerome Adler (December 28, 1902 – June 28, 2001) was an American philosopher, educator, encyclopedist, and popular author. As a philosopher he worked within the Aristotelian and Thomistic traditions. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mortimer J. Adler has received more than 554,698 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Mortimer J. Adler is the 801st most popular philosopher (down from 773rd in 2019), the 3,252nd most popular biography from United States (down from 3,005th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular American Philosopher.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.46

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.37

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Mortimer J. Adler ranks 801 out of 1,081. Before him are Péter Pázmány, Emer de Vattel, Cheng Hao, Anne Conway, Metrodorus of Chios, and Louis Lavelle. After him are Hans Albert, David the Invincible, Ferdinand Christian Baur, Anandamayi Ma, Yuriy Drohobych, and Karel Kosík.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Mortimer J. Adler ranks 126. Before him are Vladimír Clementis, Riccardo Morandi, Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria, Peng Zhen, Gustav Fröhlich, and Eric Liddell. After him are Princess Françoise of Orléans, Oscar Cullmann, Andrew Irvine, K. Shivaram Karanth, Anthony Asquith, and Panteleimon Ponomarenko. Among people deceased in 2001, Mortimer J. Adler ranks 95. Before him are Bill Hewlett, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Alexei Tupolev, Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, Víctor Paz Estenssoro, and Mauro Bolognini. After him are Kristina Söderbaum, Jason Miller, Ken Tyrrell, Tamara Smirnova, Gregory Corso, and Josef Klaus.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mortimer J. Adler ranks 3,252 out of 18,182. Before him are Peter Cetera (1944), Max Baer (1909), Michael C. Hall (1971), Larry Niven (1938), Kamehameha IV (1834), and Wilson Pickett (1941). After him are Ric Ocasek (1949), Jack Williamson (1908), Edgar Lee Masters (1868), Triple H (1969), Dennis Meadows (1942), and Stephenie Meyer (1973).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In United States

Among philosophers born in United States, Mortimer J. Adler ranks 33. Before him are Ted Nelson (1937), Helen Parkhurst (1886), Eric Hoffer (1898), Donald Davidson (1917), Michael J. Sandel (1953), and Nancy Fraser (1947). After him are David Lewis (1941), Edmund Gettier (1927), Susanne Langer (1895), James Mark Baldwin (1861), Robert Anton Wilson (1932), and Lon L. Fuller (1902).

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