Sattler | Philosophy

Areas of Interests

Ancient Philosophy of Science and Metaphysics, Presocratics, Plato, Aristotle

Ph.D. 2006, Freie Universitat Berlin

“A Likely Account of Necessity, Plato’s Receptacle as a Physical and Metaphysical Basis of Space”, Journal of the History of Philosophy, April 2012
“The Eleusinian Mysteries in Pre-platonic Thought. Metaphor, Practise and Imagery for Plato’s Symposium”, Greek Religion, Philosophy and Salvation, ed. Vishwa Adluri, Berlin, forthcoming May 2012
“Parmenides’ System – the Logical Origins of his Monism”, Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy 2009/2010 (Leiden/Boston 2011)
“A time for learning and for counting – Egyptians, Greeks and empirical processes in Plato’s Timaeus”, One Book, the Whole Universe: Plato’s Timaeus Today, Proceedings of the Conference “Plato’s Timaeus Today” at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, September 13-16, 2007, Las Vegas 2010
“One Book, the Whole Universe: Plato’s Timaeus Today” (co-edited with Richard Mohr) Proceedings of the Conference “Plato’s Timaeus Today” held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, September 13-16, 2007, Las Vegas 2010.
Review of Christopher Schields, Aristotle, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, July 2008
Review of Michael Bordt, Platons Theologie, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, July 2007
Review of H-G. Nesselrath (Übersetzung und Kommentar), Platon. Kritias, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, January 2007
Review of Walter Benjamin, Berlin Childhood, Metapsychology Online, August 2006

“Natural Philosophy in Ancient Greece”, book manuscript
“Planetary motions – a guide through human history? Plato’s astronomy and philosophy of history in the Timaeus”
“Time is double the trouble – Zeno’s Moving Rows”
“Reconstructing Zeno’s Fourth Paradox of Motion”
“Plato’s Forms and Eleusis in the Symposium"
“Aristotle’s Notion of Measurement”
“The conceptual basis for motion and change in Greek atomism”
“Space in Ancient Times: From the Presocratics to Aristotle”, chapter commissioned by Andrew Janiak for the volume on Space of the OUP series Oxford Philosophical Concepts