•  208
    Nietzsche and the Machines
    The Philosophers' Magazine 93 12-15. 2021.
    Sebastian Sunday Grève calls on us to decide what kind of life with machines we want.
  •  185
    Artificial Forms of Life
    Philosophies 8 (5). 2023.
    The logical problem of artificial intelligence—the question of whether the notion sometimes referred to as ‘strong’ AI is self-contradictory—is, essentially, the question of whether an artificial form of life is possible. This question has an immediately paradoxical character, which can be made explicit if we recast it (in terms that would ordinarily seem to be implied by it) as the question of whether an unnatural form of nature is possible. The present paper seeks to explain this paradoxical k…Read more
  •  10
    Entertaining Unhappiness
    In Craig Fox & Britt Harrison (eds.), Philosophy of Film Without Theory, Palgrave Macmillan. 2023.
    This essay sets out reflections on happiness that, it is argued, can be drawn from the 2013 film Blue Jasmine. In doing so, it seeks to demonstrate a certain epistemic potential of sound film, specifically, in the present case, a philosophical and psychological potential. It is argued that this kind of potential resides in a filmmaker’s ability to realistically represent aspects of the world that can otherwise rarely, if ever, be experienced so reflectively.
  •  45
    Intuitive Skill
    Philosophia 51 (3): 1677-1700. 2023.
    This article presents a theory of intuitive skill in terms of three constitutive elements: getting things right intuitively, not getting things wrong intuitively, and sceptical ability. The theory draws on work from a range of psychological approaches to intuition and expertise in various domains, including arts, business, science, and sport. It provides a general framework that will help to further integrate research on these topics, for example building bridges between practical and theoretica…Read more
  •  292
    This article develops a logical (or semantic) response to scepticism about the existence of an external world. Specifically, it is argued that any doubt about the existence of an external world can be proved to be false, but whatever appears to be doubt about the existence of an external world that _cannot_ be proved to be false is nonsense, insofar as it must rely on the assertion of something that is logically impossible. The article further suggests that both G. E. Moore and Ludwig Wittgenste…Read more
  •  545
    Philosophy and Common Sense 3: Philosophy as a Science
    The Philosophers' Magazine 97 30-35. 2022.
    Timothy Williamson and Sebastian Sunday-Grève discuss the question of where philosophy starts, and the idea of philosophy as a non-natural science.
  •  250
    Philosophy and Common Sense 2: Cultivating Curiosity
    The Philosophers' Magazine 96 24-30. 2022.
    Sebastian Sunday-Grève and Timothy Williamson discuss the relationship between curiosity and common sense.
  •  380
    Philosophy and Common Sense I: What Is Common Sense?
    The Philosophers' Magazine 95 24-30. 2021.
    Sebastian Sunday-Grève and Timothy Williamson discuss the question of where philosophy starts and the idea of philosophy as a non-natural science.
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    Logic and Philosophy of Logic in Wittgenstein
    Australasian Journal of Philosophy 96 (1): 168-182. 2018.
    This essay discusses Wittgenstein's conception of logic, early and late, and some of the types of logical system that he constructed. The essay shows that the common view according to which Wittgenstein had stopped engaging in logic as a philosophical discipline by the time of writing Philosophical Investigations is mistaken. It is argued that, on the contrary, logic continued to figure at the very heart of later Wittgenstein's philosophy; and that Wittgenstein's mature philosophy of logic conta…Read more
  •  1183
    The Importance of Understanding Each Other in Philosophy
    Philosophy 90 (2): 213-239. 2015.
    What is philosophy? How is it possible? This essay constitutes an attempt to contribute to a better understanding of what might be a good answer to either of these questions by reflecting on one particular characteristic of philosophy, specifically as it presents itself in the philosophical practice of Socrates, Plato and Wittgenstein. Throughout this essay, I conduct the systematic discussion of my topic in parallel lines with the historico-methodological comparison of my three main authors. Fi…Read more
  •  273
    Logic
    In Anat Matar (ed.), Understanding Wittgenstein, Understanding Modernism, Bloomsbury. pp. 205-216. 2017.
    Logic played an important role in Wittgenstein’s work over the entire period of his philosophizing, from both the point of view of the philosopher of logic and that of the logician. Besides logical analysis, there is another kind of logical activity that characterizes Wittgenstein’s philosophical work after a certain point during his experience as a soldier and, later, as an officer in the First World War – if not earlier. This other kind of logical activity has to do with what appears to be the…Read more
  •  296
    Wittgenstein and the Creativity of Language (edited book)
    with Jakub Mácha
    Palgrave Macmillan. 2016.
    This volume is the first to focus on a particular complex of questions that have troubled Wittgenstein scholarship since its very beginnings. The authors re-examine Wittgenstein’s fundamental insights into the workings of human linguistic behaviour, its creative extensions and its philosophical capabilities, as well as his creative use of language. It offers insight into a variety of topics including painting, politics, literature, poetry, literary theory, mathematics, philosophy of language, ae…Read more
  •  239
    The Good, the Bad and the Creative: Language in Wittgenstein's Philosophy
    In Sebastian Sunday Grève & Jakub Mácha (eds.), Wittgenstein and the Creativity of Language, Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 3-25. 2016.
    This introductory chapter presents the reader with various ways of approaching the topic ‘Wittgenstein and the creativity of language’. It is argued that any serious account of the questions arising from this joint consideration of, on the one hand, this great genius of philosophy and, on the other, the varieties of speech, text, action and beauty which go under the heading ‘the creativity of language’ will have to appreciate the potential of both, in terms of breadth as well as depth. First, th…Read more
  •  351
    Wittgenstein on Philosophy, Objectivity, and Meaning (edited book)
    Cambridge University Press. 2019.
    This volume of new essays presents groundbreaking interpretations of some of the most central themes of Wittgenstein's philosophy. A distinguished group of contributors demonstrates how Wittgenstein's thought can fruitfully be applied to contemporary debates in epistemology, metaphilosophy and philosophy of language. The volume combines historical and systematic approaches to Wittgensteinian methods and perspectives, with essays providing detailed analysis that will be accessible to students as …Read more
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    We argue that Wittgenstein’s philosophical perspective on Gödel’s most famous theorem is even more radical than has commonly been assumed. Wittgenstein shows in detail that there is no way that the Gödelian construct of a string of signs could be assigned a useful function within (ordinary) mathematics. — The focus is on Appendix III to Part I of Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics. The present reading highlights the exceptional importance of this particular set of remarks and, more specif…Read more