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    David Wiggins

    contemporaryAnalytic Philosophy

    b. 1933

    David Wiggins is a British analytic philosopher known for his work on metaphysics, personal identity, and meta-ethics. His influential sortal theory of identity argues that identity statements presuppose a sortal concept specifying what kind of thing is being identified, and he has defended a form of ethical cognitivism rooted in neo-Aristotelian thought.

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    Notable Achievements

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    Developed the sortal-dependent theory of identity in Sameness and Substance

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    Authored Sameness and Substance Renewed (2001), a major work on identity and individuation

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    Advanced neo-Aristotelian meta-ethics in Needs, Values, Truth

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    Held the Wykeham Chair of Logic at Oxford University

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    Contributed influential critiques of bundle theory and Lockean accounts of personal identity

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    Moral Responsibility

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    Wrongness can be explicated in terms of fitting resentment, and resentment can in turn be understood partly in terms of wrongness, supporting a no-priority view for this pair.

    Truth & Knowledge

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    Wrongness can be explicated in terms of fitting resentment, and resentment can in turn be understood partly in terms of wrongness, supporting a no-priority view for this pair.

    Consciousness & Mind

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    Bundle theory faces a problem of identity through change

    Modality & Possibility

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    The apparent multiplication of word-tokens from a single inscription based on different readings is not a genuine mereological multiplication of entities

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