Frank Cioffi

Author : David Ellis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472590139
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frank Cioffi: The Philosopher in Shirt-Sleeves written by David Ellis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-23 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A high school drop-out who served in the American army and then managed to slip into Oxford on the G.I. bill, Frank Cioffi gained a considerable public reputation in Freudian and Wittgensteinian circles. Frank Cioffi: The Philosopher in Shirt-Sleeves is an account of his conversation written in a Boswellian spirit, capturing the sharp intelligence, boisterous sense of humour and wealth of illustration Cioffi was able to bring to bear on life's biggest problems when he was, as it were, off-duty. Tackling subjects such as the unruly body, the challenge of art, dealing with failure, the lure of science, the meaning of life, our understanding of others, depression, the case for suicide, and death, David Ellis describes how a philosopher who was profoundly influenced by Wittgenstein dealt with general issues and creates a vivid impression of an unusual and gifted individual. This portrait is followed by a post-script in which Nicholas Bunnin, who worked in the philosophy department at Essex when Cioffi was a professor there, situates him in a more strictly academic context and discusses his less well-known essays on literary criticism and the behavioural sciences, arguing for Cioffi's potential to inspire those seeking a role for analytic philosophy within the broader scope of humanistic philosophy. A mixture of personal portrait and academic introduction, Frank Cioffi: The Philosopher in Shirt-Sleeves provides an elegant and enjoyable tribute to Cioffi as both man and philosopher.

Author : Frank Cioffi
Publisher : Open Court Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780812693850
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freud and the Question of Pseudoscience written by Frank Cioffi and published by Open Court Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1970s, Cioffi demonstrated that Freud falsified the account of his discovery of the Oedipus complex - an account that had gone unquestioned until that time. Moreover, Cioffi showed that this misrepresentation was necessary to the propagation of the Oedipus theory. The author subsequently revealed Freud's falsifications in retracting his theory of infantile seduction, a revelation that has been often cited in recent books and scholarly journals.

Author : Frank L. Cioffi
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691122908
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Imaginative Argument written by Frank L. Cioffi and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2005-04-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than merely a writing text, The Imaginative Argument offers writers instruction on how to use their imaginations to improve their prose. Cioffi shows writers how they can enliven argument--the organizing rubric of all persuasive writing--by drawing on emotion, soul, and creativity, the wellsprings of imagination. While Cioffi suggests that argument should become a natural habit of mind for writers, he goes still further, inspiring writers to adopt as their gold standard the imaginative argument: the surprising yet strikingly apt insight that organizes disparate noises into music, that makes out of chaos, chaos theory. Rather than offering a model of writing based on established formulas or templates, Cioffi urges writers to envision argument as an active parsing of experience that imaginatively reinvents the world. Cioffi's manifesto asserts that successful argument also requires writers to explore their own deep-seated feelings, to exploit the fuzzy but often profoundly insightful logic of the imagination. But expression is not all that matters: Cioffi's work anchors itself in the actual. Drawing on Louis Kahn's notion that a good architect never has all the answers to a building's problems before its physical construction, Cioffi maintains that in argument, too, answers must be forged along the way, as the writer inventively deals with emergent problems and unforeseen complexities. Indeed, discovery, imagination, and invention suffuse all stages of the process. The Imaginative Argument offers all the intellectual kindling that writers need to ignite this creativity, from insights on developing ideas to avoiding bland assertions or logical leaps. It cites exemplary nonfiction prose stylists, including William James, Ruth Benedict, and Erving Goffman, as well as literary sources to demonstrate the dynamic of persuasive writing. Provocative and lively, it will prove not only essential reading but also inspiration for all those interested in arguing more imaginatively more successfully.

Author : Robert Wilcocks
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739101582
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mousetraps and the Moon written by Robert Wilcocks and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intended as a follow-up to the author's earlier work, Maelzel's Chess Player: Sigmund Freud and the Rhetoric of Deceit (1994), this text looks at how Freud carried out his research and medical duties in the early years. Wilcocks (modern French literature, U. of Alberta, Edmonton) finds the picture to be less than flattering. His contention is that Freud's great influence may be attributed to his mastery of language, rather than his insight into human beings, and that he was "frequently dishonest and mostly incompetent" (from the introduction). Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Todd Dufresne
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804755481
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Against Freud written by Todd Dufresne and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against Freud is a highly accessible, informative, and entertaining examination of Freud's controversial ideas and legacy by the world's most knowledgeable critics of psychoanalysis.

Author : Peter Winch
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317831314
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Studies in the Philosophy of Wittgenstein written by Peter Winch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of essays on the work of philosophy of Wittgenstein, where the editor seeks to present his ideas as 'one or a unity' rather than the treatment of the usual early and later works. First published in 1969, the essays span the areas of the use and reference of names, ontology and identity in Tractatus , mathematics, human beings, Wittgenstein and Strawson on others, pain and private language and Wittgenstein's look at Freud.

Author : United States. National Labor Relations Board
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1432 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board written by United States. National Labor Relations Board and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 1432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lowell A. Nissen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780847686940
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Teleological Language in the Life Sciences written by Lowell A. Nissen and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1997 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking new study, Lowell Nissen explores the use of teleological language in the study of subjects such as behaviorism, negative feedback, and natural selection. He argues that all existing analyses fail to explain how teleological language can be used legitimately, and provides his own analysis in terms of intentionality.

Author : Frank Kermode
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674931527
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Uses of Error written by Frank Kermode and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a record of Kermode's "error," his wandering through literature past and present. He notes that "in thirty-odd years I have written several hundred reviews, an example I would strongly urge the young not to follow." From these Kermode has selected the pieces he treasures most; they provide an example that will be difficult to follow.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1294 pages
Book Rating : 4.0Z/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Supreme Court written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 1294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: