Sebastian Sunday Grève(王小塞)
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 infoName: Sunday Grève, Sebastian Also known as: Sunday, Sebastian / 王小塞 Date of birth: 21 January 1987 Nationality: German
EducationDPhil, 2018, University of Oxford MPhil, 2014, University of London BA, 2011, University of G?ttingen
Research interestsAI, epistemology, ethics, mind, language, logic, Nietzsche, Socrates, Wittgenstein
BiographySebastian was born and raised in northern Germany before studying at G?ttingen, London and Oxford universities. At the University of G?ttingen, 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 .
Selected publications2023 Artificial Forms of Life, Philosophies 2023 Can Machines Be Conscious?, with YU Xiaoyue, Philosophy Now 2023 Entertaining Unhappiness, in C. Fox and B. Harrison, eds, Philosophy of Film Without Theory, Palgrave 2023 Intuitive Skill, Philosophia 2022 AI’s First Philosopher, Aeon 2022 Lunacy and Scepticism: Notes on the Logic of Doubt Concerning the Existence of an External World, Topoi 2021 Nietzsche and the Machines, The Philosophers’ Magazine 2019 Wittgenstein on Philosophy, Objectivity, and Meaning, co-edited with James Conant, Cambridge University Press 2018 Logic and Philosophy of Logic in Wittgenstein, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 2015 The Importance of Understanding Each Other in Philosophy, Philosophy (awarded the Royal Institute of Philosophy Essay Prize)
Recent coursesAI ethics Analytic philosophy Introduction to philosophy Nietzsche Philosophical methods Philosophy of AI Wittgenstein
ContactOffice: Room 232, Building 2, Li Zhaoji Humanities Address: Department of Philosophy, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China Email: ssg@pku.edu.cn Website:
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