Howard Kahane (19 April 1928 – 2 May 2001) was an American professor of philosophy at Bernard M. Baruch College in New York City.
[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.
[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.
[...] 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.
"[5] Linguistics professor Louise Cummings notes that Kahane's book marked a "shift to context", that is, toward pragmatic criteria for evaluating natural language arguments.