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Rolf Sattler, Ph.D., D.Sc. (h.c.), F.L.S., F.R.S.C., (born March 8, 1936) is a Canadian plant morphologist, biologist, philosopher, and educator. He is considered one of the most significant contributors to the field of plant morphology〔Vergara-Silva, F. 2003. Plants and the conceptual articulation of evolutionary developmental biology. ''Biology and Philosophy'' 18: 262-263〕 and "one of the foremost plant morphologists in the world."〔Cavers, P. 1974. Rolf Sattler. ''The Canadian Botanical Association Bulletin'' 7(3): 5.〕 His contributions are not only empirical but involved also a revision of the most fundamental concepts, theories, and philosophical assumptions. He published the award-winning ''Organogenesis of Flowers'' (1973) and nearly a hundred scientific papers, mainly on plant morphology. As well he has contributed to many national and international symposia and also organized and chaired symposia at international congresses, edited the proceedings of two of them and published them as books.〔Sattler, R. (ed.). 1978. ''Theoretical Plant Morphology''. The Hague: Leiden University Press.〕〔Sattler, R. (ed.). 1982. ''Axioms and Principles of Plant Constructions''. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff/Junk Publishers.〕 Besides ''Biophilosophy'' (1986), his philosophical contributions include articles on complementarity (perspectivism), process philosophy, the mandala principle, and the convergence of science and spirituality. Additional publications deal with holistic alternative medicine and healing ways of thinking such as fuzzy logic. Yin-Yang thinking (both/and logic), Buddhist and Jain logic. ==Life== Sattler was born in Göppingen, Germany. He studied botany, zoology, chemistry, philosophy and pedagogy in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland and received his doctorate, with summa cum laude, in systematic botany from the University of Munich. As a postdoctoral fellow, he spent a year with Ludwig von Bertalanffy, one of the founders of general systems theory, at the University of Alberta in Canada. Subsequently, he worked for another year with Ernest M. Gifford and G. Ledyard Stebbins at the University of California. For 33 years, he was first assistant, then associate, and finally full professor in the departments of botany and biology of McGill University in Montreal. He became Emeritus Professor when he retired in 1997. Since retiring he has lived in Kingston, Ontario. At McGill University he taught botany, biology, the history and philosophy of biology, and biology in relation to the human predicament. As a visiting professor at the University of Berlin in Germany he taught plant morphology and the philosophy of biology. At Cornell University, he was consultant in the Summer Institute on the Philosophy of Biology. And at Naropa Institute he taught a summer course on Modern Biology and Zen. Sattler has lectured at many universities across the globe, including Harvard and the Universities of California, Paris, Berlin, Bonn, Heidelberg, Zurich, Delhi, Malaya, and Singapore. As well as his research in plant morphology and the philosophy of biology, he has investigated the relation of science and spirituality and is keenly interested in holistic alternative medicine and healing thinking. He is also interested in developing a process language in which the verb, not the noun or pronoun, plays the primary role. In 1995, he gave a talk on science and spirituality in a symposium at the 60th birthday celebrations of the Dalai Lama. There he discussed the relation between science and spirituality with special reference to life science.〔Sattler, R. 1999. Divergence and convergence of sciences and spirituality: life science and spirituality. ''Holistic Science and Human Values'', Transactions 4: 41-48.〕 He enjoys laughing and practices Laughter Yoga and other forms of meditation such as mahamudra. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rolf Sattler」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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