Works by Howard Kahane
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- Logic and Contemporary Rhetoric.Frank Boardman,Nancy M. Cavender &Howard Kahane -2017 - [Boston, MA]: Cengage. Edited by Nancy Cavender & Howard Kahane.An introduction to informal logic, critical thinking and rhetoric utilizing actual public discourse .
- Logic and philosophy.Howard Kahane -1973 - Belmont, Calif.,: Wadsworth Pub. Co..A comprehensive introduction to formal logic, Logic and Philosophy: A Modern Introduction is a rigorous yet accessible text, appropriate for students encountering the subject for the first time. Abundant, carefully crafted exercise sets accompanied by a clear, engaging exposition build to an exploration of sentential logic, first-order predicate logic, the theory of descriptions, identity, relations, set theory, modal logic, and Aristotelian logic. And as its title suggests, Logic and Philosophy is devoted not only to logic but also to the philosophical (...) debates that led to the development of the field. Much new material has been added for the 13th edition. An introduction to set theory and its relationship to logic and mathematics, including philosophical issues, is now part of Chapter 13. Chapter 15 is an introduction to modal logic and Kripke semantics, concluding with a discussion of philosophical problems with any logical accommodation of modalities. Instructors who do not wish to present proof methods will find chapters on truth trees for both sentential and first-order logic, and a presentation of trees for modal logic. Special features of this text include presentations of the history of logic, alternatives to traditional methods of conditional and indirect proof, and a discussion of semantic problems with universal and existential instantiations. Throughout, the authors are sensitive to philosophical issues that arise from the relationship between ordinary language, symbolic logic, and justifications for the syntax and semantics of the various symbolic languages. Discussions range from the justification of the truth table for the sentential rendering of if... then statements to semantic and syntactic paradoxes, including some troubling paradoxes that arise in ordinary language (e.g., the so-called hangman or surprise quiz paradox). Logic and Philosophy includes ample material for a one-semester or two-semester course and provides a thorough preparation for more advanced logic courses. (shrink)
- Contract Ethics: Evolutionary Biology and the Moral Sentiments.Howard Kahane -1995 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.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. (shrink)
- The nature and classification of fallacies.Howard Kahane -forthcoming -Informal Logic: The First International Symposium. Ca: Edgepress.
- (1 other version)Logic and contemporary rhetoric: the use of reason in everyday life.Howard Kahane -1971 - Belmont, Calif.,: Wadsworth Pub. Co..
- A difficulty on conflict and confirmation.Howard Kahane -1971 -Journal of Philosophy 68 (16):488-489.
- Discussion: Nelson Goodman's entrenchment theory.Howard Kahane -1965 -Philosophy of Science 32 (3/4):377.One of the fundamental problems in the fields of inductive logic and the philosophy of science is the one concerning inferences or projections containing so-called “grue-like” or “pathological” predicates. This problem was first put into sharp focus by Nelson Goodman, who called it the “new riddle of induction.”Goodman has shown that the few attempts by others to solve this problem are not adequate. However, very little has been written concerning Goodman's own attempt to solve the problem, namely his theory of (...) entrenchment. The purpose of this article is to show that Goodman's entrenchment theory also is inadequate as a solution to the new riddle of induction. I shall try to do this by presenting two kinds of counterexamples to the entrenchment theory: one kind illustrating a general objection to the theory as a whole ; the other kind, specific objections to particular parts of the theory. (shrink)
- Logic and Philosophy: A Modern Introduction.Howard Kahane -1970 -British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 21 (4):407-408.
- Thomason on natural kinds.Howard Kahane -1969 -Noûs 3 (4):409-412.
- Baumer on the confirmation paradoxes.Howard Kahane -1967 -British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 18 (1):52-56.
- Reply to Ackermann.Howard Kahane -1967 -Philosophy of Science 34 (2):184-187.Permit me to reply to the recent note [1] in this journal by Robert J. Ackermann, concerning my critical comments on Nelson Goodman's entrenchment theory.
- Hard and Soft Intensionalism.Richard Cole &Howard Kahane -1970 -Review of Metaphysics 23 (3):399 - 416.Unfortunately, an at least equally important and fundamental dispute among intensionalists themselves has tended to be blurred and/or ignored, with the result that many, perhaps most, contemporary philosophers are either inconsistent or vague on the issue.
- Abstracts, "british journal for the philosophy of science".Howard Kahane -1965 -Philosophy of Science 32 (3/4):384.
- Abstracts, "inquiry".Howard Kahane -1965 -Philosophy of Science 32 (3/4):388.
- Contract Ethics; Evolutionary Biology and the Natural Sentiments.Howard Kahane -1997 -Philosophy 72 (281):468-471.
- Eliminative confirmation and paradoxes.Howard Kahane -1969 -British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 20 (2):160-162.
- John Nolt's Inductive Reasoning Test.Howard Kahane -1984 -Informal Logic 6 (3).
- Logic and philosophy.Howard Kahane -1969 - Belmont, Calif.,: Wadsworth Pub. Co..No categoriesExport citation
Bookmark - Pathological Predicates and Projection.Howard Kahane -1971 -American Philosophical Quarterly 8 (2):171 - 178.No categories
- Six Inductive Problems.Howard Kahane -1962 - Dissertation, University of PennsylvaniaExport citation Bookmark
- Thinking about Basic Beliefs: An Introduction to Philosophy.Howard Kahane -1983
- The Proper Subject Matter For Critical.Howard Kahane -1989 -Argumentation 3:141-147.
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