About Frank Cioffi
Lived 1928 – 2012 (aged 83–84). Frank Cioffi was a British and American philosopher, university teacher and teacher.
Frank Louis Cioffi, of Baruch College is Frank Cioffi's nephew.
Frank Cioffi (11 January 1928 – 1 January 2012) was an American philosopher educated in New York and Oxford.
Cioffi held posts at the University of Singapore, the University of Kent and the University of Essex, where he was a founding member of the Department of Philosophy.
He wrote on Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and behaviour and explanation.
Works Wittgenstein on Freud and Frazer, Cambridge University Press (1998), trade paperback, 310 pages Freud and the Question of Pseudoscience, Open Court (1998), trade paperback, 313 pages
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Who was Frank Cioffi?
American-British philosopher
When was Frank Cioffi born?
Frank Cioffi was born on 11 January 1928 in Manhattan.
When did Frank Cioffi die?
Frank Cioffi died in 2012 in Canterbury.
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Frank Cioffi was a philosopher, university teacher and teacher.
What nationality was Frank Cioffi?
Frank Cioffi was British and American.
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