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
3 February 1994
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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Hughes, Gerard J. (1987) The Philosophical assessment of theology: essays in honour of Frederick C. Copleston