Life
Wiggins read philosophy at Brasenose College, Oxford, and had J. L. Ackrill as a tutor. 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.
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