Wayne Riggs is a contemporary analytic epistemologist at the University of Oklahoma whose work centers on epistemic luck, the nature of knowledge, and virtue epistemology. He has contributed significantly to debates about what distinguishes knowledge from mere true belief and to the epistemology of understanding as a distinct cognitive achievement. His research engages foundational questions about evidence, justification, and the conditions under which beliefs can be epistemically credited to an agent.
Developed influential accounts of epistemic luck and its role in undermining knowledge
Contributed to virtue epistemology by analyzing the relationship between cognitive achievement and epistemic credit
Advanced the epistemology of understanding as an achievement distinct from propositional knowledge
Explored the evidential role of experience, including nonconceptual content, in justification
Authored the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on 'Understanding'