Academic Publications

Featured Works

2024/2025. “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. Forthcoming.

2024. “Competition, Power and Deception: A Note on Dialogue and Self-knowledge in Plato’s Alcibiades I”, Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy. Forthcoming.

2024/2025. Platonic Autonomy: Essays on Unity and Cooperation in Plato and the Platonic tradition. Co-edited with Pauliina Remes, under contract with Cambridge University Press. Forthcoming.

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

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.

2024. The Language of Illusory Wisdom: Plato and Self-Understanding, Inaugural Lecture (monograph), CECTRRA. Forthcoming.

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

Articles (selection)

2024/2025. “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. Forthcoming.

2024. “Competition, Power and Deception: A Note on Dialogue and Self-knowledge in Plato’s Alcibiades I”, Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy. Forthcoming

2024/2025. “Själens tystnad: Den första Alkibiades och språket som gräns”, Aiolos. Forthcoming.

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.