در این کتاب، فصل های چهاردهم و شانزدهم تا هجدهم ویراست نهم و فصل های سیزدهم تا شانزدهم از ویراست هشتم کتاب "درآمدی نو به منطق و فلسفه" به طبع رسیده است. در فصل اول مباحث متعددی از منطق سنتی توضیح داده شده است. فصل دوم دربرگیرنده مباحثی در حیطه منطق استقرایی است. فصل سوم به توضیح درباره نظام های اصل موضوعی می پردازد و آخرین فصل کتاب، توضیح مختصری را در مورد منطق های بدیل در اختیارمی گذارد.
Howard Kahane (19 April 1928 – 2 May 2001) was a 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. Another textbook of his that saw posthumous publication is Logic and Philosophy: A Modern Introduction.
Kahane graduated with a BA (1954) and master's degree (1958) 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.