David Wiggins

David Wiggins FBA (born 8 March 1933) is a British moral philosopher, metaphysician, and philosophical logician working especially on identity and issues in meta-ethics.

David Wiggins was born in 1933 in London. He attended St Paul's School before reading philosophy at Brasenose College, Oxford where he obtained a first class degree. His tutor was J. L. Ackrill.

After completing his National Service, he joined the Civil Service and was appointed Assistant Principal in the Colonial Office. In 1958 he left the Civil Service and returned to Oxford. He was a lecturer and Fellow of New College, Oxford from 1959 to 1967. After that, he was appointed Chair of Philosophy at Bedford College, London, where he remained until 1993. He returned to Oxford in 1993 to take up the post of Wykeham Professor of Logic and retired in 2000.

Wiggins was made a Fellow of the British Academy in 1978. He was also President of the Aristotelian Society from 1999 to 2000 . He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992.

He is married to philosopher Hidé Ishiguro.

Wiggins is well known for his work in metaphysics, particularly identity (see e.g. Sameness and Substance (Oxford, 1980).

According to philosopher Harold Noonan:

Wiggins is well known for his work in metaphysics, particularly identity (see e.g. Sameness and Substance (Oxford, 1980).

He has also made an influential contribution to ethics. His 2006 book, Ethics. Twelve Lectures on the Philosophy of Morality defends a position he calls "moral objectivism".

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