Academic Publications

Featured Works

2024 (forthcoming). “Dialogue and Epistemic Autonomy in Plato and Fricker”, in Platonic Autonomy: Essays on Unity and Cooperation in Plato and the Platonic tradition, edited by P. Remes & O. Pettersson, under contract with Cambridge University Press.

2024 (forthcoming). Platonic Autonomy: Essays on Unity and Cooperation in Plato and the Platonic tradition. Anthology, co-edited (with Pauliina Remes), under contract with Cambridge University Press.

2022. “Commerce, Theft and Deception: The Etymology of Hermes in Plato’s Cratylus”, in Plato’s Cratylus: Proceedings from the XIth Symposium Platonicum Pragense, edited by V. Mikeš, 124-143. Leiden, Boston: Brill.

2021. “Power and Person in Plato’s Alcibiades I”. Ancient Philosophy 41(1): 23-36.

2020a. “Herdsmen and Stargazers: The Science of Philosophy in Plato’s Statesman”. Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman Political Thought 37(3): 534-549.

2018a. “Språkets politik: Text och tal i Platons Faidros”. Agora: Journal for Metafysisk Spekulasjon 1(2-4): 69-90.

2018b. “The Science of Philosophy: Discourse and Deception in Plato’s Sophist”. Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 22 (2): 221-237.

2018c. “Socrates’ Failure: Language and Lies in Plato’s Apology”, 137-154, in V. Haraldsen, O. Pettersson & O. Tvedt (eds.), Readings of Plato’s Apology of Socrates Defending the Philosophical Life. Lanham, Boulder, New York, London: Rowman and Littlefield, Lexington Books.

2018d. Readings of Plato’s Apology of Socrates Defending the Philosophical Life. Anthology, edited together with Oda Tvedt and Vivil Valvik Haraldsen. Lanham, Boulder, New York, London: Rowman and Littlefield, Lexington Books.

2017a. “Dangerous Voices: On Written and Spoken Discourse in Plato’s Protagoras”, 177-198. Published in Olof Pettersson and Vigdis Songe-Møller (eds.), Plato’s Protagoras: Essays on the Confrontation of Philosophy and Sophistry. Philosophical Studies Series 125. Springer.

Books & Edited Volumes

2024/2025 (wip). Plato and Self-knowledge. Pettersson, O. & H. Ausland (eds).

2024 (forthcoming). Platonic Autonomy: Essays on Unity and Cooperation in Plato and the Platonic tradition, Pettersson, O. & P. Remes (eds). Under contract with Cambridge University Press.Cambridge University Press.

2018. Defending a Philosophical Life: Readings of Plato’s Apology, edited together with V. Haraldsen and O.Tvedt, Rowman and Littlefield – Lexington.

2017. Plato’s Protagoras: Essays on the Confrontation of Philosophy and Sophistry (ed.), Philosophical Studies Series, Springer, 2017.

Forthcoming. The Language of Illusory Wisdom: Plato and Self-Understanding, Inaugural Lecture (monograph), CECTRRA,

2013. A Multiform Desire: A Study of Appetite in Plato’s Timaeus, Republic and Phaedrus (Dissertation), Uppsala: Department of Philosophy.

Articles (selection)

2024 (forthcoming). “Dialogue and Epistemic Autonomy in Plato and Fricker”, in Platonic Autonomy: Essays on Unity and Cooperation in Plato and the Platonic tradition, edited by P. Remes & O. Pettersson, under contract with Cambridge University Press.

2024 (forthcoming). “Själens tystnad: Den första Alkibiades och språket som gräns”, Aiolos.

2022. “Commerce, Theft And Deception: The Etymology Of Hermes In Plato’s Cratylus”, in Proceeding from the XI International Plato Symposium, Brill.

2021. “Power and Person in Plato’s Alcibiades I”, Ancient Philosophy 41(1).

2020. ”Flödets dilemma: Platons Herakleitos och kunskapens villkor”, Filosofisk Tidskrift, No.2.

2020. “Herdsmen and Stargazers: The Science of Philosophy in Plato’s Statesman”, Polis 37 (3): 534-549, 2020.

2018. “Språkets politik: Text och tal i Platons Faidros”, Agora: Journal for Metafysisk Spekulasjon 1(2-4): 69-90.

2017. “The Science of Philosophy: Discourse and Deception in Plato’s Sophist”, Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 22 (2): 221-237.

2018. “Socrates’ Failure: Language and Lies in Plato’s Apology”, Haraldsen, Pettersson & Tvedt (eds.), Readings of Plato’s Apology of Socrates Defending the Philosophical Life, Lexington: 137-154.

2017. Review of Sophistry and Political Philosophy: Protagoras’ Challenge to Socrates by Robertc C. Bartlett, Contemporary Political Theory.

2017. ”Words of Desire: Poetry and Non-Rational Motivation in Plato’s Republic”, Filosofiska Notiser 4(1): 59–80.

2017. “Introduction”, Plato’s Protagoras: Essays on the Confrontation of Philosophy and Sophistry, Philosophical Studies Series, Springer.

2017. “Dangerous Voices: On Written and Spoken Discourse in Plato’s Protagoras”. I Pettersson & Songe-Møller (eds.), Plato’s Protagoras: Essays on the Confrontation of Philosophy and Sophistry, Springer: 177-198.

2016. “The Legacy of Hermes: Deception and Dialectic in Plato’s Cratylus”, Journal for Ancient Philosophy, 10(1).

2015. “Allt innehåll är obetydligt: Tre poetiska formuleringar som skulle kunna sammanfatta översättningens grundproblem”, Monad 1(1).

2014. “Political Reluctance: On the Noble Lie in Plato’s Republic”, Elogos: Journal for Philosophy 21.

2014. “Idle Talk: On Dialectic and Rhetoric in Plato’s Protagoras”, Plato and Rhetoric: Proceedings from the Regional Meeting of the International Plato Society, Keio University.

2013. “Plato on Necessity and Disorder”, Frontiers of Philosophy in China [BRILL] 8(4).

2010. “Language, Search and Aporia in Plato’s Seventh Letter”, Sophia Perennis, 7(2).

2006. “Förberedande anmärkningar”, Autisktisk Kilskrift, Stockholm: Styx förlag.

2004. ”Deleuze och Platon: Filosofi som förvandling”, Glänta 1.

2010. ”The Disruption of Society”, in 165DSL, Stockholm: Styx.