Howard Kahane

Who was Howard Kahane?

Howard Kahane was a professor of philosophy at Bernard M. Baruch College in New York. He was noted for promoting a popular, and non-mathematical, approach to logic, now known as informal logic. His best known publication in that area is his textbook Logic and Contemporary Rhetoric: The Use of Reason in Everyday Life, now at 11th edition; at 12th edition is scheduled for February 2013. Another textbook of his that saw posthumous publication is Logic and Philosophy: A Modern Introduction.

Kahane graduated with a master's degree from the University of California at Los Angeles and received a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1962. Before Baruch College, Kahane taught at Whitman College, the University of Kansas, American University and the University of Maryland at Baltimore.

Nancy Cavender, who is a Professor Emeritus at the College of Marin and coauthors later editions of his 1971 textbook, was also "his companion", according to the New York Times. Kahane fathered one daughter.