TEICHMAN, Jenny 1930-

PERSONAL:

Born March 29, 1930, in Melbourne, Australia; daughter of Elef (a physician) and Madeleine (a science teacher and artist; maiden name, Levick) Jorgensen; married (divorced); children: Erik, Roger. Ethnicity: "English, Norwegian, Irish." Education: University of Melbourne, B.A., 1953, M.A., 1955; Oxford University, B.Phil., 1957.

ADDRESSES:

Office—c/o New Hall, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Educator and author. Oxford University, Oxford, England, research fellow at Somerville College, 1957-60; Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia, lecturer in philosophy, 1964-67; Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, fellow of New Hall, 1968-97, director of studies in philosophy at New Hall, 1968-97, emeritus fellow, 1997—. Boston University, visiting professor, 2002.

WRITINGS:

The Mind and the Soul: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind, Humanities Press (New York, NY), 1974.

The Meaning of Illegitimacy, Englehardt Books (Cambridge, England), 1978.

(Editor, with Cora Diamond, and contributor) Intention and Intentionality: Essays in Honor of G. E. M. Anscombe, Cornell University Press (Ithaca, NY), 1979.

Illegitimacy: An Examination of Bastardy, Cornell University Press (Ithaca, NY), 1982, published as Illegitimacy: A Philosophical Examination, Basil Blackwell (London, England), 1982.

Pacifism and the Just War: A Study in Applied

Philosophy, B. Blackwell (Cambridge, MA), 1986. Philosophy and the Mind, Basil Blackwell (London, England), 1988.

(With Katherine C. Evans) Philosophy: A Beginner's Guide, Basil Blackwell (Cambridge, MA), 1991, 2nd edition, 1995.

(Editor, with Graham White, and contributor) An Introduction to Modern European Philosophy, St. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 1995.

Social Ethics: A Student's Guide, B. Blackwell (Cambridge, MA), 1996.

Polemical Papers, Ashgate (Burlington, VT), 1997.

Ethics and Reality: Collected Essays, Ashgate (Burlington, VT), 2001.

Contributor to philosophy journals.

Teichman's work has been translated into Spanish and Indonesian.

SIDELIGHTS:

British educator Jenny Teichman told CA that the people who particularly influence her work are "my former teachers: in Melbourne, Douglas Gasking and A. C. Jackson; in Oxford, Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, and Gilbert Ryle."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

American Spectator, January, 1998, Roger Kimball, review of Polemical Papers, p. 68.

Ethics, July, 1998, Paul Hurley, review of Social Ethics: A Student's Guide, p. 850.

New York Times Book Review, April 26, 1987, Jay P. Dolan, review of Pacifism and the Just War: A Study in Applied Philosophy, p. 30.

Philosophy, April, 1998, review of Polemical Papers, p. 325.

Philosophy in Review, June, 1998, review of Social Ethics, p. 230; October, 1999, review of Polemical Papers, p. 383.

Quadrant, April, 1998, David S. Oderberg, review of Polemical Papers, p. 78.

Reference & Research Book News, May, 1997, review of Social Ethics, p. 74; February, 1998, review of Polemical Papers, p. 1.

Times Literary Supplement, April 18, 1997, A. C. Grayling, review of Philosophy: A Beginner's Guide, p. 10.*