Jenny Teichman (1930 – 12 September 2018) was an Australian-British
philosopher
A philosopher is a person who practices or investigates philosophy. The term ''philosopher'' comes from the grc, φιλόσοφος, , translit=philosophos, meaning 'lover of wisdom'. The coining of the term has been attributed to the Greek th ...
, writing mostly on
ethics
Ethics or moral philosophy is a branch of philosophy that "involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong behavior".''Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy'' The field of ethics, along with aesthetics, concer ...
. She was born in
Melbourne
Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/ Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a metro ...
,
Australia
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in 1930 and lived as a child in the artists' colony of
Montsalvat. She married the lecturer and political commentator
Max Teichmann
Max Edwin Teichmann (20 August 1924 – 29 November 2008) was an Australian academic and political commentator.
Early years
Born in Melbourne to a German-born father, also Max, and an Adelaide-born mother, Kathleen, Teichmann grew up in the ...
. She taught mostly at
Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, formerly known as New Hall, where she became an Emeritus Fellow.
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, from 1957 until 1960.
She died on 12 September 2018.
Bibliography
Books
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* ''Illegitimacy'', Blackwell & Cornell UP 1982
* ''Pacifism & the Just War'', Blackwell 1986Review in New York Times
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* ''Philosophy & the Mind'', Blackwell 1988
* ''Philosophy: a Beginners Guide'' (with Katherine Evans) Blackwell 1991, 1995, 1999 (translations in Polish, Spanish, Russian, Korean, Chinese & Georgian)
* ''Social Ethics a Students Guide'', Blackwell 1996 (translations in Spanish, Indonesian, Korean & Polish)
Anthologies
* ''Intention & Intentionality: Essays in Honour of GEM Anscombe'' (with Cora Diamond
Cora Diamond (born 1937) is an American philosopher who works on Ludwig Wittgenstein, Gottlob Frege, moral philosophy, animal ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of language, and philosophy and literature. Diamond is the Kenan Professor ...
) Harvester Press 1979
* ''An Introduction to Modern European Philosophy'' (with Graham White) Macmillan 1995 and 1998
Book reviews
References
External links
J. Teichman
Review of Aurel Kolnai's ''Sexual Ethics''
J. Teichman
'Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'
(on Peter Singer
Peter Albert David Singer (born 6 July 1946) is an Australian moral philosopher, currently the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. He specialises in applied ethics and approaches ethical issues from a secular ...
)
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1930 births
2018 deaths
20th-century Australian philosophers
Australian ethicists
Australian women philosophers
British philosophers
Fellows of New Hall, Cambridge
Quadrant (magazine) people
University of Melbourne alumni
Fellows of Somerville College, Oxford
20th-century Australian women