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PHILOSOPHER

Frederick Copleston

1907 - 1994

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Frederick Charles Copleston (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). 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 245,567 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Frederick Copleston is the 895th most popular philosopher (down from 880th in 2019), the 2,269th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,231st in 2019) and the 58th most popular British Philosopher.

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  • 51.51

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.22

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Frederick Copleston ranks 895 out of 1,081. Before him are Arethas of Caesarea, Élisabeth Badinter, Kumārila Bhaṭṭa, Erich Neumann, Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, and Tomáš Halík. After him are Abu Sulayman Sijistani, Arthur Oncken Lovejoy, Yeshayahu Leibowitz, Porcia, Ian Hacking, and Leo Baeck.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Frederick Copleston ranks 163. Before him are Marcel Bezençon, Alfred Delp, Volmari Iso-Hollo, John King Fairbank, Sukhdev Thapar, and Gunnar Ekelöf. After him are Germaine Tillion, Benny Carter, Ethel Smith, Raymond Braine, Hans-Jürgen von Blumenthal, and Joseph-Armand Bombardier. Among people deceased in 1994, Frederick Copleston ranks 150. Before him are Zoltán Fábri, William Conrad, Ales Adamovich, Giovanni Goria, Juan Alonso, and Stuart Roosa. After him are Anatoly Alexandrov, Yeshayahu Leibowitz, Nick Cravat, Paul Grimault, Oldřich Černík, and Cyprien Ntaryamira.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Frederick Copleston ranks 2,269 out of 7,765. Before him are Cædwalla of Wessex (659), Ben Barnes (1981), Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth (1757), Mary Anne MacLeod Trump (1912), Dodie Smith (1896), and Princess Alexandra, 2nd Duchess of Fife (1891). After him are Felicity Jones (1983), Rebecca Clarke (1886), Cary Elwes (1962), Æthelheard of Wessex (750), John Leslie (1766), and Tony Banks (1950).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In United Kingdom

Among philosophers born in United Kingdom, Frederick Copleston ranks 58. Before him are Charles Kay Ogden (1889), Thomas Arnold (1795), F. H. Bradley (1846), Michael Dummett (1925), J. M. E. McTaggart (1866), and Samuel Clarke (1675). After him are John Hick (1922), Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (1678), Richard Swinburne (1934), Carole Pateman (1940), Anna Kingsford (1846), and Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet (1788).

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