Jenny Teichman (29 March 1930 – 12 September 2018) was an Australian-British
philosopher
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, writing mostly on
ethics
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. She was born Jenny Jorgensen in
Melbourne
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,
Australia
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, in 1930 and grew up in the Melbourne outer suburb of
Belgrave. Her uncle was
Justus Jorgensen, founder of the artists' colony of
Montsalvat, outside Melbourne. She married the lecturer and political commentator
Max Teichmann.
She was a research fellow at
Somerville College, Oxford, from 1957 until 1960. She taught mostly at
Murray Edwards College, Cambridge
Murray Edwards College is a women-only constituent college of the University of Cambridge. It was founded in 1954 as New Hall and renamed in 2008. The name honours a gift of £30 million by alumna Ros Edwards and her husband Steve, and the firs ...
, formerly known as New Hall, where she became an Emeritus Fellow.
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She died on 12 September 2018.
Bibliography
Books
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* ''Illegitimacy'', Blackwell & Cornell UP 1982
* ''Pacifism & the Just War'', Blackwell 1986
Anthologies
* ''Intention & Intentionality: Essays in Honour of GEM Anscombe'' (with Cora Diamond) 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)
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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