Thomas Sattig

Research

CV

Areas

Metaphysics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science

Books

How Time Passes

Oxford University Press 2025

Material Objects

Cambridge University Press

(Elements in Metaphysics) 2021

The Double Lives of Objects:

An Essay in the Metaphysics

of the Ordinary World

Oxford University Press 2015

The Language and Reality of Time

Oxford University Press 2006

Papers (selection)

The Structure of Perceptual Time 

Forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook of Time in Thought and Language

K. Jaszczolt and G. Torrengo (eds.), Oxford University Press, 2027.


Persistence and Geometry

Forthcoming in Facets of Reality: Proceedings of the 45th International Ludwig Wittgenstein Symposium

Y. Kappas, A. Passinsky, J. De Rizzo, and B. Schnieder (eds.), DeGruyter, 2026. + pdf +


Persistence and Structure

Philosophical Studies, 182 (2023): 2425-2441.


Part, Slot, Ground: Foundations for Neo-Aristotelian Mereology

Synthese, 198 (2021): 2735-2749. + pdf +


The Flow of Time in Experience

Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 119, Issue 3, October 2019.


The Sense of Temporal Flow: A Higher-Order Account

Philosophical Studies, 176 (2019): 3041-3059. + pdf +


Experiencing Change: Extensionalism, Retentionalism, and Marty”s Hybrid Account

In G. Bacigalupo and H. Leblanc (eds.), Anton Marty and Contemporary Philosophy,

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. + pdf +


The Sense and Reality of Personal Identity

Erkenntnis, 83 (2018): 1139-55. + pdf +


Memory-based Personal Identity without Circularity

In V. Buonomo (ed.) The Persistence of Persons: Studies in the Metaphysics of Personal Identity

over Time (2017), 117-34. + pdf +


Metaphysical Ambitions in the Ontology of Objects

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 94 (2017): 481-87. + pdf +


Die Natur der Zeit

Handbuch Metaphysik (ed. M. Schrenk), Stuttgart/Weimar: Metzler (2017) + pdf +


Identität

Handbuch Metaphysik (ed. M. Schrenk), Stuttgart/Weimar: Metzler (2017) + pdf +


Pluralism and Determinism

Journal of Philosophy, 111 (2014): 135-150. + pdf +


Mereological Indeterminacy: Metaphysical But Not Fundamental

In K. Akiba and A. Abasnezhad (eds.) Vague Objects and Vague Identity:

New Essays on Ontic Vagueness (2014), 25-42. + pdf +


Vague Objects and the Problem of the Many

In Metaphysica: Special Issue on Vagueness and Ontology (2013), 211-223. + pdf +


Ordinary Objects in the Relativistic World

Chronos: Proceedings of the Philosophy of Time Society XI (2010-2011), 28-61. + pdf +


The Paradox of Fission and the Ontology of Ordinary Objects

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 85 (2012): 594-623. + pdf +


Compatibilism about Coincidence

Philosophical Review, 119 (2010): 273-313. + pdf +


Many as One

Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, Vol. 5, ed. Dean Zimmerman, (2010), 145-179. + pdf +


Identity in 4D

Philosophical Studies, 140 (2008): 179-95. + pdf +


Temporal Predication with Temporal Parts and Temporal Counterparts

Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 81 (2003): 355-368. + pdf +


Temporal Parts and Complex Predicates

Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 102 (2002): 279-286. + pdf +