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David Wiggins FBA (born 1933) is an English moral philosopher, metaphysician, and philosophical logician working especially on identity and issues in meta-ethics. David Wiggins was born on 8 March 1933 in London,[1] the son of Norman and Diana Wiggins (née Priestley).[2] He attended St Paul's School before reading philosophy at Brasenose College, Oxford, where he obtained a first-class degree.[3] His tutor was J. L. Ackrill.[4] After completing his National Service, he joined the Civil Service and was appointed Assistant Principal in the Colonial Office, 1957–8. He left the Civil Service and was Jane Eliza Proctor Visiting Fellow at Princeton University in 1958–9. Returning to Oxford, he was Lecturer, 1959, then Fellow and Lecturer, 1960–7, at New College. After that, he was Chair of Philosophy at Bedford College, London, 1967–80; Fellow and Praelector in Philosophy at University College, Oxford, 1981–9; and Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London, 1989–94; an

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