Frederick Copleston
Frederick Charles Copleston SJ CBE FBA (10 April 1907 – 3 February 1994) was an English Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, philosopher, and historian of philosophy, best known for his influential multi-volume A History of Philosophy (1946–75).
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| Born | Frederick Charles Copleston 10 April 1907 Taunton, England |
| Died | 3 February 1994 (aged 86) London, England |
| Alma mater | St. John's College, Oxford |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Christian philosophy |
Main interests | History of philosophy |
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Copleston achieved a degree of popularity in the media for debating the existence of God with Bertrand Russell in a celebrated 1948 BBC broadcast; the following year he debated logical positivism and the meaningfulness of religious language with his friend the analytic philosopher A. J. Ayer.
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