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.
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