PHILOSOPHER

Frederick Copleston

1907 - 1994

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Frederick Charles Copleston (10 April 1907 – 3 February 1994) was a British Jesuit 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frederick Copleston has received more than 262,375 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Frederick Copleston is the 807th most popular philosopher (up from 895th in 2019), the 1,876th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,263rd in 2019) and the 50th most popular British Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Frederick Copleston ranks 807 out of 1,267. Before him are Claude Lefort, Alain Finkielkraut, Gargi Vachaknavi, Volin, Calcidius, and Rambhadracharya. After him are Eric Hoffer, Herman of Carinthia, Hecataeus of Abdera, Jakob Friedrich Fries, Konstantin Leontiev, and Michael Baius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Frederick Copleston ranks 140. Before him are Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov, Mihail Sebastian, Ramon Magsaysay, Roberto Cherro, Bo Gu, and Ursula Kuczynski. After him are Grand Duchess Maria Kirillovna of Russia, Fay Wray, L. Sprague de Camp, Sergei Kruglov, Parvin E'tesami, and Isaac Deutscher. Among people deceased in 1994, Frederick Copleston ranks 128. Before him are Derek Jarman, Zail Singh, Motoo Kimura, Stephen Cole Kleene, Dean Rusk, and John Edward Williams. After him are Billy Wright, Joe Pass, William Conrad, Stanisław Maczek, Lindsay Anderson, and Moana Pozzi.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Frederick Copleston ranks 1,876 out of 8,785. Before him are Ken Tyrrell (1924), Herbert Chapman (1878), Andrew Bertie (1929), Millicent Fawcett (1847), Pauline Moran (1947), and John Watson (1946). After him are Lilian Harvey (1906), Steve Howe (1947), Alexander William Williamson (1824), W. Montgomery Watt (1909), Noël Coward (1899), and William of Malmesbury (1080).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In United Kingdom

Among philosophers born in United Kingdom, Frederick Copleston ranks 50. Before him are Robert Filmer (1588), Philippa Foot (1920), P. F. Strawson (1919), Henry More (1614), Raymond Williams (1921), and Stephen Toulmin (1922). After him are F. H. Bradley (1846), Charles Kay Ogden (1889), Michael Dummett (1925), Perry Anderson (1938), William Paley (1743), and Bernard Williams (1929).

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