Howard Kahane

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Howard Kahane
Born(1928-04-19)April 19, 1928
Informal Logic

Howard Kahane (19 April 1928 – 2 May 2001) was an American professor of philosophy at Bernard M. Baruch College in New York City. He was noted for promoting a popular, and non-mathematical, approach to logic, now known as informal logic.[1] His best known publication in that area is his textbook Logic and Contemporary Rhetoric: The Use of Reason in Everyday Life,[1][2] now at the 12th edition, published in 2014.[3]

Another textbook of his that saw posthumous publication is Logic and Philosophy: A Modern Introduction (12th edition in 2012).[4]

Kahane graduated with a master's degree from the

University of Maryland at Baltimore.[1]

Nancy Cavender, who is a professor emeritus at the College of Marin and coauthored later editions of Kahane's 1971 textbook,[3] was also "his companion", according to the New York Times.[1] Kahane fathered one daughter.[1]

Legacy

According to

fallacies was primarily taught from textbooks (such as Irving Copi's Introduction to Logic) in which "fallacies are presented in a brief fashion using examples that were mostly invented or taken out of context. [...] The 'radical change' was that Kahane's book took current examples from newspapers and periodicals dealing with issues students cared about or, at least, recognized. This meant that fallacies were more situated than in older books."[5]

Linguistics professor Louise Cummings notes that Kahane's book marked a "shift to context", that is, toward

suppressed evidence'."[6]

Selected publications

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Lewis, Paul (2001) Obituary: Howard Kahane, 73, Philosopher Who Advanced a School of Logic, New York Times, May 22 (Accessed April 29, 2011)
  2. Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association
    Vol. 75, No. 5, May, pp. 191-193
  3. ^ a b "Cengage EMEA: Higher Education Textbooks, eBooks & Digital Solutions".
  4. ISBN 978-1-133-05000-1
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  5. ISBN 978-0-8058-2520-6
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  6. ISBN 978-0-8058-5543-2
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