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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).

For the member of the Indian Civil Service, see Frederick Selwyn Copleston.

Frederick Copleston

Frederick Charles Copleston

(1907-04-10)10 April 1907
Taunton, England

3 February 1994(1994-02-03) (aged 86)

London, England

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.

(1946–1975)[7]

A History of Philosophy

Other select works


Related works


Hughes, Gerard J. (1987) The Philosophical assessment of theology: essays in honour of Frederick C. Copleston

on YouTube (BBC Radio, 28 January 1948)

Fr. Frederick C. Copleston vs Bertrand Russell

interview for The Great Philosophers by Bryan Magee (BBC. 1987)

Frederick Copleston on Schopenhauer

British Academy memoir by Gerard J. Hughes

Copleston, Frederick Charles, 1907-1994

at Open Library

E-Books by Frederick Charles Copleston available for loan

History