David Wiggins

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David Wiggins (born 8 March 1933) is a British moral philosopher, metaphysician, and philosophical logician working especially on identity and issues in meta-ethics. His 2006 book, Ethics. Twelve Lectures on the Philosophy of Morals defends a position he calls "moral objectivism".

He was the Wykeham Professor of Logic from 1993 to 2000. He was president of the Aristotelian Society from 1999 to 2000. He is Fellow of the British Academy, and Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

[edit] Writings

• ''Ethics. Twelve Lectures on the Philosophy of Morals (Cambridge, 2006)
• Needs, Values, Truth: Essays in the Philosophy of Value (Oxford, 1987; second edition 1998)
• Sameness and Substance Renewed (Cambridge, 2001)
• Sameness and Substance (Oxford, 1980)
• Truth, Invention, and the Meaning of Life (Proceedings of the British Academy)
• Identity and Spatio-Temporal Continuity (Oxford, 1967)
• On sentence-sense, word-sense and difference of word-sense. Towards a philosophical theory of dictionaries