Frederick Copleston, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Frederick Copleston

Jesuit

Date of Birth: 09-Apr-1907

Place of Birth: Taunton, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 03-Feb-1994

Profession: writer, historian, Catholic priest, cleric, philosopher

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Frederick Charles Copleston SJ (10 April 1907 – 3 February 1994) was a 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.
Ayer.