Researcher
Charlotta Weigelt is Professor of Philosophy at Södertörn University and former Head of the Department of Culture and Learning. She is the translator of Aristotle’s Physics and Nicomachean Ethics into Swedish, with an ongoing translation of Metaphysics. She is currently also President of the Nordic Society for Phenomenology, board member of the Swedish Philosophy Foundation, and member of the editorial board of Aiolos: Journal of Literature, Theory, and Aesthetics. She is the author of Socrates and the Possibility of Political Art (Axl Books 2015), Socrates: The Philosopher’s Many Faces (Faethon 2023) and numerous articles on Plato and ancient Greek philosophy.
Olof Pettersson
Researcher, Chair
Olof Pettersson is Associate Professor (docent) in Theoretical Philosophy from Uppsala University. Pettersson has been assistant project manager for the research project “Rational Self-Government: An Investigation of Personal Autonomy and its Platonic Origin” at Uppsala University, postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Philosophy, University of Bergen (Norway), and assistant coordinator for the international research project “Poetry and Philosophy” (on ancient Greek philosophy) also at the Department of Philosophy, University of Bergen (Norway). Pettersson’s research has been funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation), the Society for the History of Philosophy (BSHP), The Mind Association, the Classical Association, The Aristotelian Society, the Research Council of Norway (NFR) and by the Sweden-America Foundation. He is published by, among others, Cambridge University Press, Ancient Philosophy: A Journal devoted to Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy and Science, Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman Political Thought, Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy, Journal for Ancient Philosophy and Contemporary Political Theory. He has also been invited lecturer at Keio University (Japan), Nagoya University (Japan), University of Cambridge (UK), University of Groningen (Netherlands), University of California at Berkeley (USA), Bard College (USA). Pettersson’s recent publications include “Power and Person in Plato’s Alcibiades I” (Ancient Philosophy 2021) and “Herdsmen and Stargazers: The Science of Philosophy in Plato’s Statesman” (Polis 2020). He is also the co-editor of Platonic Autonomy: Essays on Unity and Cooperation in Plato and the Platonic tradition (under contract with CUP, edited together with P. Remes), Defending a Philosophical Life: Readings of Plato’s Apology (Rowman and Littlefield 2018) and of Plato’s Protagoras: Essays on the Confrontation of Philosophy and Sophistry (Springer 2017).
olof.pettersson@filosofi.uu.se
olof.pettersson@sh.se
Hans Ruin
Senior Advisor
Hans Ruin is Professor of Philosophy at Södertörn University, and the founder of the Department of Philosophy and the research school Critical Cultural Theory. Ruin led a multidisciplinary research program on memory culture, Time, Memory, and Representation, between 2010 and 2016. He is co-founder of the Nordic Society for Phenomenology and has served as its president. Ruin has also conducted research as visiting scholar at the Sorbonne, Humboldt University in Berlin, and Amherst College, and served on the editorial board for the Swedish collected works of Nietzsche. He is also co-editor of the book series Södertörn Philosophical Studies. Ruin also sits on the editorial boards of Nietzsche-Studien, Danish Yearbook for Philosophy, and Jahrbuch für Hermeneutik. Main book publications include: Enigmatic Origins. Tracing the Theme of Historicity Through Heideggers Works (diss, 1994), A commentary to the Heraclitean fragments (in Swedish, 1997), Metaphysics, Facticity, and Interpretation (with D. Zahavi and S. Heinämaa, 2003), The Past´s Presence. Essays on the Historicity of Philosophical Thought (with M. Sá Cavalcante, 2006), Phenomenology and Religion: New Frontiers (with J. Bornemark, 2010), Re-Thinking Time: Essays on History, Memory and Representation (with A. Ers, 2011), Phenomenology, Technology and Mediality (in Swedish, with L. Dahlberg, 2011), Ambiguity of the Sacred. Phenomenology, Politics, Aesthetics (with J. Bornemark, 2012), Freedom, Finitude and Historicity: Essays on Heidegger’s Philosophy (in Swedish, 2013), The Ethos of History (co-editor of 3-volume work, in Swedish, 2016), Between Memory and Forgetting: Essays in Cultural Memory (in Swedish, with J. Redin, 2016). His most recent book is Being with the Dead: Burial, Ancestral Politics, and the Roots of Historical Consciousness (Stanford UP, 2018).
International Advisory Board
To secure our research capabilities, we have established an international advisory board comprised of highly qualified researchers. Their expertise will contribute to the center’s achievement of its goals, ensure the quality and rigor of our research, and facilitate its dissemination. The group will provide expert guidance on all aspects of our research, including strategic direction, and the dissemination of our findings.
Carol Atack is Director of Studies in Classics, at Cambridge University, Bye-fellow and assistant tutor at Newnham College. Carol Atack has held teaching positions in Classics at Oxford and Warwick. Her research focuses on developments in fourth-century BCE Greek political thought and on the political culture of Athenian democracy and its contemporary reception. She is currently writing a monograph on temporality in Platonic dialogue and argument, and she is editing a volume on democracy in antiquity. Her latest publications include Anachronism and Antiquity (Bloomsbury Academic 2020), written together with Tim Rood and Tom Phillips, The Discourse of Kingship in Classical Greece (Routledge Classical Monographs 2019), and “Plato, Foucault and the Conceptualization of Parrhēsia” (in History of Political Thought 2019).
Nicholas D. Smith is James F. Miller Professor of Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at Lewis & Clark College. He won the “Outstanding Academic Book for 1994” award for his book Plato’s Socrates (with T. C. Brickhouse). His recent books include Socrates on Self-Improvement: Knowledge, Virtue, and Happiness, forthcoming with CUP, Summoning Knowledge in Plato’s Republic (OUP 2019) and What the Ancients Offer to Contemporary Epistemology, edited together with S. Hetherington (Routledge 2019).
Ryan K. Balot is Professor of Political Science and Classics at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Greed and Injustice in Classical Athens (Princeton: Princeton University Press 2001), Greek Political Thought (Blackwell 2006), and Courage in the Democratic Polis: Ideology and Critique in Classical Athens (Oxford University Press 2014). He is also the editor of A Companion to Greek and Roman Political Thought (Blackwell 2009), and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Thucydides (Oxford University Press 2017). His current research focus is Plato’s Laws; after completing work on this project, he will turn his attention to Hegel.