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Frederick Copleston

Frederick Copleston's Slugfester profile includes score averages, opponents faced, topic performance, and linked debate scorecards.

Background

About Frederick Copleston

Frederick Copleston was a Jesuit priest, philosopher, and historian of philosophy. He wrote a multivolume history of the subject and is also remembered for his 1948 radio debate with Bertrand Russell about God’s existence.

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Published debate record

1 eligible one-on-one scorecards. Average published score: 78/100. Scores describe these debates, not the person's overall ability or worth.

Bertrand Russell vs Frederick Copleston: Does God Exist? · 1948

Copleston develops contingency, religious-experience, and moral arguments for God; Russell narrowly prevails by exposing modal, evidential, and normative explanatory gaps.

Frederick Copleston: 78 · Bertrand Russell: 80. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.