'… a thoughtful and probing book by an original thinker. Sattler's understanding of foundational issues in mathematics is put to fine use, and she does important conceptual work … There is much of great value in this book …' Sylvia Berryman, Journal of the History of Philosophy
Introduction; 1. Conceptual Foundations; 2. Parmenides's account of the object of philosophy; 3. Zeno's Paradoxes of Motion and Plurality; 4. The atomistic foundation for an account of motion; 5. The Possibility of Natural Philosophy according to Plato I: The Logical Basis; 6. The Possibility of Natural Philosophy according to Plato II: Mathematical Advances and Ultimate Problems; 7. Aristotle's Notion of Continuity – the Structure underlying Motion; 8. Time and Space – the Implicit Measure of Motion in Aristotle's Physics; 9. Time as the simple measure of motion.