Howard Kahane, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Howard Kahane

American philosopher

Date of Birth: 19-Apr-1928

Place of Birth: Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Date of Death: 02-May-2001

Profession: philosopher

Zodiac Sign: Aries

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.
His best known publication in that area is his textbook Logic and Contemporary Rhetoric: The Use of Reason in Everyday Life, now at the 12th edition, published in 2014.Another textbook of his that saw posthumous publication is Logic and Philosophy: A Modern Introduction (12th edition in 2012).Kahane graduated with a master's degree from the University of California at Los Angeles (1958) 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 coauthored later editions of Kahane's 1971 textbook, was also "his companion", according to the New York Times.
Kahane fathered one daughter.