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Frederick Copleston

1907 - 1994

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Frederick Charles Copleston (10 April 1907 – 3 February 1994) was a British Catholic priest, philosopher, and historian of philosophy, best known for his influential multi-volume A History of Philosophy (1946–75). 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Frederick Copleston is the 868th most popular philosopher (down from 807th in 2019), the 2,373rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,877th in 2019) and the 59th most popular British Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Frederick Copleston ranks 868 out of 1,267. Before him are Charles Kay Ogden, Anandamayi Ma, Timon of Athens, Julius Pollux, Myson of Chenae, and James Mark Baldwin. After him are August Böckh, Ted Nelson, Raymond Williams, William of Conches, Ian Hacking, and Arethas of Caesarea.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Frederick Copleston ranks 158. Before him are Dixie Dean, Volmari Iso-Hollo, Ita Rina, Isaac Deutscher, Lev Oborin, and Sven Andersson. After him are Luigi Beccali, Martti Miettunen, Anton Schall, Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov, Günter Eich, and Guido Masetti. Among people deceased in 1994, Frederick Copleston ranks 151. Before him are Alex Wilson, Derek Jarman, Maria Carta, Nicole Brown Simpson, Elga Andersen, and Anni Albers. After him are Stephen Cole Kleene, Ales Adamovich, Roy J. Plunkett, Grigol Abashidze, Leonid Leonov, and Mildred Natwick.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Frederick Copleston ranks 2,373 out of 8,785. Before him are William T. Stearn (1911), Harold Spencer Jones (1890), Andrew Bertie (1929), Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland (1640), Francis de Laporte de Castelnau (1810), and Henry Irving (1838). After him are Richard Lydekker (1849), Alan Stacey (1933), Prince William of Gloucester (1941), Raymond Williams (1921), Eadgifu of Wessex (null), and Emma Darwin (1808).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In United Kingdom

Among philosophers born in United Kingdom, Frederick Copleston ranks 59. Before him are William Paley (1743), Anthony Collins (1676), Philippa Foot (1920), Bernard Williams (1929), John Major (1467), and Charles Kay Ogden (1889). After him are Raymond Williams (1921), Martin Lings (1909), J. M. E. McTaggart (1866), Perry Anderson (1938), Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock (1924), and Thomas Arnold (1795).

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