Sebastian Sunday Grève works broadly in philosophy. He is interested in both practical and theoretical issues in philosophy as well as in selected issues in psychology and artificial intelligence. In addition, he teaches the works of several important figures in the history of Western philosophy.

Basic info

Name: Sunday Grève, Sebastian

Also known as: Sunday, Sebastian / 王小塞

Date of birth: 21 January 1987

Nationality: German

Education

DPhil, 2018, University of Oxford

MPhil, 2014, University of London

BA, 2011, University of Göttingen

Research interests

AI, epistemology, ethics, mind, language, logic, Nietzsche, Socrates, Wittgenstein

Biography

Sebastian was born and raised in northern Germany before studying at Göttingen, London and Oxford universities. At the University of Göttingen, he studied philosophy and German language and literature, spending his final year at the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen, in Norway, where he wrote his BA thesis on Kripke and Wittgenstein on other minds. In 2014, he graduated from Birkbeck, University of London having obtained the degree of Master of Philosophical Studies for a thesis on Plato and Wittgenstein. From 2014 until 2018, he read for the DPhil in Philosophy at the University of Oxford, under the supervision of William Child and Timothy Williamson, and was awarded the doctoral degree for a thesis entitled Skill and Scepticism: An Enquiry Concerning the Nature and Epistemic Value of Intuitive Judgement. He continued at Oxford as Stipendiary Lecturer in Philosophy at Christ Church, before joining Peking University in 2019 as Assistant Professor in Philosophy and Fellow of the Institute of Foreign Philosophy.

A full curriculum vitae is available here.

Selected publications

2023 Artificial Forms of Life, Philosophies   link

2023 Can Machines Be Conscious?, with YU Xiaoyue, Philosophy Now   link

2023 Entertaining Unhappiness, in C. Fox and B. Harrison, eds, Philosophy of Film Without Theory, Palgrave   link

2023 Intuitive Skill, Philosophia   link

2022 AI’s First Philosopher, Aeon   link

2022 Lunacy and Scepticism: Notes on the Logic of Doubt Concerning the Existence of an External World, Topoi   link

2021 Nietzsche and the Machines, The Philosophers’ Magazine   link

2019 Wittgenstein on Philosophy, Objectivity, and Meaning, co-edited with James Conant, Cambridge University Press   link

2018 Logic and Philosophy of Logic in Wittgenstein, Australasian Journal of Philosophy   link

2015 The Importance of Understanding Each Other in Philosophy, Philosophy (awarded the Royal Institute of Philosophy Essay Prize)   link

Recent courses

AI ethics

Analytic philosophy

Introduction to philosophy

Nietzsche

Philosophical methods

Philosophy of AI

Wittgenstein

Contact

Office:        Room 232, Building 2, Li Zhaoji Humanities

Address:     Department of Philosophy, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China

Email:        ssg@pku.edu.cn

Website:     yhposolihp.com