id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-2192 Frederick Copleston - Wikipedia .html text/html 2211 298 61 Frederick Charles Copleston SJ CBE FBA (10 April 1907 – 3 February 1994) was an English Jesuit 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;[8] the following year he debated logical positivism and the meaningfulness of religious language with his friend the analytic philosopher A. Copleston achieved a degree of popularity in the media for debating the existence of God with Bertrand Russell in a celebrated 1948 BBC broadcast;[8] the following year he debated logical positivism and the meaningfulness of religious language with his friend the analytic philosopher A. ^ later sold as Volume 10 of the Continuum edition of Copleston's A History of Philosophy from 2003 ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2192.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2192.txt