Publikationen

Some of my papers can be found at PhilPapers:

https://philpapers.org/s/Barbara%20Sattler

Or at Academia:

https://yale.academia.edu/BarbaraSattler

Monograph:

The Concept of Motion in Ancient Greek Thought - Foundations in Logic, Method, and Mathematics, Cambridge University Press, 2020 (https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/concept-of-motion-in-ancient-greek-thought/6680AE5F45ED3A49BDE06C5CE2589E0C#fndtn-information)

Edited Books:
– Co-editor (with Ursula Coope) of Ancient Ethics and the Natural World, forthcoming with Cam-bridge University Press, 2021.
– Co-editor (with Richard Mohr) of 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, Septem-ber 13-16, 2007, Las Vegas: Parmenides Press 2010.
Reviews in: Phronesis 56 (2011), Journal of the History of Philosophy 50 (2012), Anabases 14 (2011), Bryn Mawr Classical Review, Philosophy in Review, Journal for the History of Astronomy 42, and others.

Journal articles:

– “What about plurality? Aristotle’s discussion of Zeno’s paradoxes”, in: Peitho vol. 12, Eleatic Ontology and Aristotle, ed. by David Bronstein and Fabián Mié, 2021.
– “Paradoxes as Philosophical Method and their Zenonian Origins”, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 2020/2021.
– “Time and Space in Plato’s Parmenides”, Etudes Platoniciennes 15, May 2019.
– “The Labours of Zeno – a Supertask?”, in: Ancient Philosophy Today: DIALOGOI 1, pp. 1-17, April 2019.
– “The notion of continuity in Parmenides”, in: Philosophical Inquiry 43, winter-spring 2019, pp. 40-53.
– “Aristotle’s Measurement Dilemma”, in: Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 52, pp. 257-301, sum-mer 2017.
– “Time is double the trouble – Zeno’s Moving Rows”, in: Ancient Philosophy 35, 2015, pp. 1-22.
– “Contingency and Necessity: Human agency in Musil’s The Man without Qualities”, in: The Monist 97.1, January 2014, pp. 86-103.
– “A Likely Account of Necessity, Plato’s Receptacle as a Physical and Metaphysical Basis of Space”, in: Journal of the History of Philosophy 50, April 2012, pp. 159-195.
– “Parmenides’ System – the Logical Origins of his Monism”, in: Proceedings of the Boston Area Collo-quium in Ancient Philosophy 2009/2010, Vol. XXVI, Leiden/Boston 2011, pp. 25-70. 

Chapters in Collections and Proceedings:
– “From the object to the subject: Plato’s version of the principle of non-contradiction in Republic IV”, in: Re-Reading Plato’s Republic, ed. by MM McCabe and S. Trépanier, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming 2023.
– “The Principle of Sufficient Reason in the Presocratics, Plato and Aristotle” in: “The Principle of Sufficient Reason”, Oxford Philosophical Concepts, ed. by Fatema Amijee and Michael Della Rocca, Oxford: OUP forthcoming 2023.
– “The relationship of Zeno and Parmenides according to Plato, Aristotle, and Eudemus — Reply to Richard McKirahan’s Lecture ‘Aristotle and Zeno’”, in: Richard McKirahan et al., Aristotle and the Eleatics, B. Berruecos & M. Pulpito (eds.), Academia/Nomos, Sankt Augustin, forthcoming 2023.
– “Mathematisation in Plato’s Timaeus”, in: Plato’s Timaeus and the Emergence of Disciplinary Thinking in Medieval and Renaissance Europe, ed. by Jacomien Prins and Edmund Thomas, Oxford-Warburg Studies forthcoming 2023.
– “Hesiod as a Philosopher”, in: Neglected Classics of Philosophy, volume II, edited by Eric Schliesser, OUP, 2022.
– “Plato’s astronomy and moral history in the Timaeus”, in: Sattler, Barbara M. and Coope, Ursula, Ethics and the Natural World, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
– “The ensouled cosmos in Plato’s Timaeus: biological science as a guide to cosmology?”, chapter in Biology and Cosmology in Ancient Philosophy. From Thales to Avicenna, ed. by Ricardo Salles, CUP, 2021, pp. 29-45.
– “Platonic Reception – Atomism and the atomists in Plato's Timaeus”, in: The Reception of Presocratic Natural Philosophy in Later Classical Thought, ed. by Chelsea Harry and Justin Habash, Leiden: Brill 2021.
– “Space in Ancient Times: From the Presocratics to Aristotle”, in: “Space”, Oxford Philosophical Con-cepts, ed. Andrew Janiak, Oxford: OUP, 2020.
– “Cosmology and Ideal Society - the division of the day into hours in Plato’s Laws”, in: Down to the Hour: Short Time in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East, ed. by Kassandra Miller and Sarah Sy-mons, in Brill’s Series Time, Astronomy, and Calendars, 2019.
– “Sufficient Reason in the Phaedo and its Presocratic antecedents” in: Plato’s Phaedo. Selected Papers from the Eleventh Symposium Platonicum, ed. by Gabriele Cornelli, Francisco Bravo, and Tom Robinson, International Plato Studies, St. Augustin: Academia Verlag, 2018, pp. 239-248.
– “How natural is a unified notion of time? Temporal Experience in early Greek Thought”, in: The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Temporal Experience, ed. by Ian Phillips, London and New York: Routledge, 2017, pp. 19-29.
– “Von der Bewegung himmlischer zu der irdischer Körper - Die wissenschaftliche Erfassung physi-scher Bewegung in der griechischen Antike“, in: ΣΩΜΑ. Körperkonzepte und körperliche Existenz in der antiken Philosophie und Literatur, ed. by Thomas Buchheim, Nora Wachsmann, and David Meißner, Hamburg: Meiner Verlag, Archiv für Begriffsgeschichte, Sonderheft 13, 2016, pp. 437-454.
– “The Eleusinian Mysteries in Pre-platonic Thought. Metaphor, Practise and Imagery for Plato’s Sym-posium”, in: “Greek Religion, Philosophy and Salvation”, ed. Vishwa Adluri, Berlin: de Gruyter, 151-190, 2013.
– “A time for learning and for counting – Egyptians, Greeks and empirical processes in Plato’s Timae-us”, in: “One Book, the Whole Universe: Plato’s Timaeus Today”, Proceedings of the Conference “Pla-to’s Timaeus Today” at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, September 13-16, 2007, Las Vegas: Parmenides Press 2010, pp. 249-266.

Reviews:
– Review of John Palmer, Parmenides and Presocratic Philosophy, Classical World 107.3, 2014, pp. 421-423.
– Review of Patricia Curd and Daniel Graham (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Presocratic Philosophy, An-cient Philosophy 33, 2013, p.187-193.
– Review of Christopher Shields, 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

Miscellaneous:
Revision of Donald Zeyl’s article on Plato’s Timaeus on the Stanford Encyclopedia for Philosophy, win-ter 2017 (https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2017/entries/plato-timaeus/).

Work in preparation:
Monograph:
– Conceptions of Space in ancient Greek thought, monograph manuscript, full draft of the introduction and the five chapters – in preparation for CUP for their series Key Themes in Ancient Philosophy.

Work commissioned:
– “Proportions as the basic structure in Plato’s Timaeus”, in: Plato’s Timaeus and the Emergence of Disciplinary Thinking in Medieval and Renaissance Europe, ed. by Jacomien Prins and Edmund Thomas, Oxford-Warburg Studies; for March 2020
– “Hesiod as a Philosopher”, in: Neglected Classics of Philosophy, volume II, edited by Eric Schliesser, OUP, for spring 2020.
– Chapter on the Principle of Sufficient Reason in the Presocratics, Plato and Aristotle, in: “The Princi-ple of Sufficient Reason”, Oxford Philosophical Concepts, ed. by Fatema Amijee and Michael Della Rocca, Oxford: OUP; for September 2020.
– “Commentary on Aristotle’s Generation of Animals I, 17-18”, in: Aristotle on Living Beings: A Com-mentary on Aristotle’s Generation of Animals, ed. by Ina Goy, OUP.

Work submitted:
– “Reconstructing Zeno’s Fourth Paradox of Motion”, revise and re-submit.
– “Thinking makes the World go round - Intellection and Astronomy in Plato’s Timaeus”, submitted.
– “What is doing the explaining? And should we do it? An atomistic idea”, submitted
– “Plato’s Forms in the language of the Eleusinian Mysteries”.

Work in Progress:
Book:
– Ancient Notions of time from Homer to Plato, monograph manuscript, draft of three (out of six) chap-ters.
– Zeno, outline of a book discussing all of Zeno’s paradoxes handed down to us.
Articles:
– “Duration versus point in time – The conceptual complexity of the notion of hour in early Greek thought”, article in draft form.
– “Space and Place in Zeno”, article in rough draft form.
– “Temporality and Genre in Early Greek Literature”, article in very rough draft form.
– “How to think of thought – Aristotle’s reception of Plato’s Timaeus in De Anima I, 3”, article in rough draft form.
– “Plato on the distinction between temporal, logical, and causal origins”, paper in rough draft form.
– “Platonic history of philosophy”, article in rough draft form.