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Howard Kahane was born on April 19, 1928 in Cleveland, Ohio, United States.
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University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States
Howard Kahane received a bachelor's degree in 1954, and a master's degree in 1958, from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
In 1962 Howard Kahane received a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania.
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University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States
Howard Kahane received a bachelor's degree in 1954, and a master's degree in 1958, from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
In 1962 Howard Kahane received a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania.
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Logic and Philosophy: A Modern Introduction
(This text is designed for those instructors who desire a ...)
This text is designed for those instructors who desire a comprehensive introduction to formal logic that is both rigorous and accessible to students encountering the subject for the first time. Numerous carefully crafted exercise sets accompanied by clear, crisp exposition give students a firm grasp of basic concepts and take the student from sentential logic through first-order predicate logic, the theory of descriptions, and identity. As the title suggests, this is a book devoted not merely to logic; students will encounter an abundance of philosophy as well.
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1969
Logic and Contemporary Rhetoric: The Use of Reason in Everyday Life
(This classic text has introduced tens of thousands of stu...)
This classic text has introduced tens of thousands of students to sound reasoning using a wealth of current, relevant, and stimulating examples all put together and explained in Howard Kahane's uniquely witty and invigorating writing style. Long the choice of instructors who want to "keep students interested", LOGIC AND CONTEMPORARY RHETORIC combines examples from TV, newspapers, magazines, advertisements, and, in typical Kahanian fashion, our nation¹s political dialogue. The text not only brings the concepts alive for students, but puts critical thinking skills into a context that students will retain and use throughout their lives. This is a book you can actually count on students to read.
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1971
Contract Ethics
(Recent theorists have suggested that human altruism towar...)
Recent theorists have suggested that human altruism toward non-family members evolved because of the tremendous benefits of reciprocity. Developing further the notion that evolutionary theory can help to explain moral sentiments, Howard Kahane proposes that a sense of fair play is essential to ethics and argues that moral obligation, too narrowly construed, prevents us from living rationally. He brings his account of fair play to bear on the ethics of various domains of social life including friendship, taxes, civil rights, and nation states.
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1995
Howard Kahane
Edit ProfileEducation
Howard Kahane received a bachelor's degree in 1954, and a master's degree in 1958, from the University of California, Los Angeles. In 1962 he received a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania.
Career
Howard Kahane was a professor of philosophy at a number of institutions including Baruch College, where he taught from 1970 to 1976. A keen scholar and teacher of logic, he wrote a number of books on the subject including his most famous work, Logic and Contemporary Rhetoric: The Use of Reason in Everyday Life, which subsequently saw eight editions.
Some of Kahane’s other works include A Difficulty on Conflict and Confirmation and Pathological Predicates and Projection. His writings appeared in such publications as American Philosophical Quarterly and Philosophy of Science. In 1967 Kahane received a National Science Foundation grant.
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Logic and Contemporary Rhetoric: The Use of Reason in Everyday Life
(This classic text has introduced tens of thousands of stu...)
1971 -
Logic and Philosophy: A Modern Introduction
(This text is designed for those instructors who desire a ...)
1969 -
Contract Ethics
(Recent theorists have suggested that human altruism towar...)
1995
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Logic and Contemporary Rhetoric: The Use of Reason in Everyday Life
Politics
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.
Connections
Howard Kahane has a daughter, Bonnie, and his companion, Nancy Cavender.
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