Thomas Sattig#
| Membership Number: | 7079 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHILOSOPHY, THEOLOGY & RELIGIOUS STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.thomassattig.de |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-5917-4828 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2012 - present Professor, Chair of Theoretical Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Philosophy, University of Tübingen, Germany
- 2007 - 2012 Assistant Professor of Philosophy (tenure 2012), College of Arts & Sciences, Department of Philosophy, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
- 2010 Humboldt Research Fellow, Humboldt University, Berlin, Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation
- 2005 - 2007 Assistant Professor of Philosophy (tenure-track), School of Liberal Arts, Department of Philosophy, Tulane University, USA
- 2002 - 2005 British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Junior Research Fellow, Brasenose College, University of Oxford, UK
- 2001 - 2002 Jacobsen Fellow, The Royal Institute of Philosophy, London
Fields of Scholarship
- Philosophy of person and self
- Metaphysics of modality
- Philosophy of temporal experience
- Metaphysics of mereology
- Metaphysics of material objects
- Meta-metaphysics of essence and ground
- Philosophy of vagueness and indeterminacy
- Metaphysics of time
- Neo-Aristotelian metaphysics of matter and form (hylomorphism)
Honours and Awards
- 2022 Opus Magnum Grant for the monograph 'How Time Passes', VolkswagenFoundation (for ‘an Opus Magnum with an outreach beyond their own specific academic field’ by full professors ‘with a degree of renown by virtue of outstanding research performance’ in the humanities and social sciences in Germany (https://www.volkswagenstiftung.de)
- 2010 Humboldt Research Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation
- 2009 Wolfgang-Stegmüller-Award for the monograph 'The Language and Reality of Time' (awarded by the German Society for Analytic Philosophy)
- 2002 British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship (awarded to ‘outstanding early-career researchers in the humanities or social sciences’)
- 2002 Junior Research Fellowship, Brasenose College, Oxford (held in combination with a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship)
