Matti Eklund
Professor at Department of Philosophy; Theoretical Philosophy; Academic Staff
- Telephone:
- +46 72 999 93 76, +46 18 471 73 56
- E-mail:
- matti.eklund@filosofi.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Engelska parken, Thunbergsvägen 3 H
- Postal address:
- Box 627
751 26 UPPSALA
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Short presentation
I have been Chair Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at Uppsala University since 2013. Most of my work to date is in metaphysics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of logic. My book Choosing Normative Concepts (Oxford University Press, 2017) is mostly about metaethics. A current project, Alien Structure: Language and Reality, is funded by the Swedish Research Council. My book with the same title was published by Oxford University Press in 2024.
Publications
Selection of publications
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Representation, Alien Languages, and Linguistic Idealism
Part of The Question of Linguistic Idealism, p. 260-282, Oxford University Press, 2025
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Alien Structure: Language and Reality
Oxford University Press, 2024
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Conceptual engineering and conceptual innovation
Part of Inquiry, 2024
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Replies to Festschrift Contributors
Part of Festschrift for Matti Eklund, Uppsala University, 2024
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Should moral intuitionism go social?
Part of Noûs, p. 973-985, 2023
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Schmoughts for Naught?: Reply to Vermaire
Part of Journal of Philosophy, p. 392-398, 2023
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Conceptual Engineering in Philosophy
Part of The Routledge Handbook of Social and Political Philosophy of Language, p. 15-30, Routledge, 2021
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Part of Philosophical Studies, p. 2051-2071, 2020
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Variance Theses in Ontology and Metaethics
Part of Conceptual Engineering and Conceptual Ethics, p. 187-203, Oxford University Press, 2020
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Oxford University Press, 2017
Recent publications
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Alternative Concepts, Ardor, and Elusive Questions
Part of New Essays on Normative Realism, p. 112-140, Oxford University Press, 2025
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Representation, Alien Languages, and Linguistic Idealism
Part of The Question of Linguistic Idealism, p. 260-282, Oxford University Press, 2025
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Alien Structure: Language and Reality
Oxford University Press, 2024
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Conceptual engineering and conceptual innovation
Part of Inquiry, 2024
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Replies to Festschrift Contributors
Part of Festschrift for Matti Eklund, Uppsala University, 2024
All publications
Articles in journal
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Conceptual engineering and conceptual innovation
Part of Inquiry, 2024
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Possible Limits of Conceptual Engineering: Magnetism, Fixed Points and Inescapability
Part of Argumenta, p. 339-356, 2023
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Part of Theoria, p. 356-365, 2023
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Should moral intuitionism go social?
Part of Noûs, p. 973-985, 2023
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Carnapian Frameworks Revisited
Part of Acta Philosophica Fennica, p. 91-113, 2023
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Part of Inquiry, p. 1481-1493, 2023
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Schmoughts for Naught?: Reply to Vermaire
Part of Journal of Philosophy, p. 392-398, 2023
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Schmoughts for Naught? Reply to Vermaire
Part of The Journal of Philosophy, p. 392-398, 2023
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Who cares if we’re not fully real?: Comments on Kris McDaniel’s The Fragmentation of Being
Part of Philosophical Studies, p. 3141-3150, 2022
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What is deflationism about truth?
Part of Synthese, p. 631-645, 2021
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Reply to Hernandez and Laskowski
Part of Southwest Philosophy Review, p. 1-4, 2021
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Part of Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, p. 121-146, 2020
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Part of Philosophical Studies, p. 2051-2071, 2020
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Part of Inquiry, p. 535-561, 2020
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Making sense of logical pluralism
Part of Inquiry, p. 433-454, 2020
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Alien Structure and Themes from Analytic Philosophy
Part of Giornale di Metafisica, p. 195-208, 2019
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Part of Utilitas, p. 347-349, 2019
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Part of Inquiry, p. 387-402, 2019
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Regress, Unity, Facts, and Propositions
Part of Synthese, p. 1225-1247, 2019
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Modesty, Esotericism and Ineffability: Remarks on Hofweber
Part of Analysis, p. 291-303, 2018
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Kripke, normativitet och mening
Part of Filosofisk Tidskrift, 2016
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On Quantification and Ontology
Part of Oxford Handbooks Online, 2014
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Part of Inquiry, p. 483-497, 2014
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Metaphysical Vagueness and Metaphysical Indeterminacy
Part of Metaphysica, p. 165-179, 2013
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Williams on the Normative Silence of Indeterminacy
Part of Analysis, 2013
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Trends and Progress in Philosophy
Part of Metaphilosophy, 2013
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Part of Nous, 2013
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Multitude, Tolerance and Language-Transcendence
Part of Synthese, 2012
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Alternative Normative Concepts
Part of Analytic Philosophy, 2012
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Part of Canadian journal of philosophy, p. 25-49, 2011
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Being Metaphysically Unsettled: Barnes and Williams on Metaphysical Vagueness
Part of Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, 2011
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The Frege-Geach Problem and Kalderon's Moral Fictionalism
Part of The Philosophical Quarterly, p. 705-712, 2009
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On Some Recent Criticisms of the 'Linguistic' Approach to Ontology
Part of Dialectica, 2009
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Förkastliga värdebegrepp och Karl Marx antimoralism
Part of Filosofisk Tidskrift, 2009
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Bad Company and Neo-Fregean Philosophy
Part of Synthese, p. 393-414, 2009
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Part of Australasian Journal of Logic, p. 94-106, 2008
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Deconstructing Ontological Vagueness
Part of Canadian journal of philosophy, p. 117-140, 2008
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Part of Philosophy Compass, 2007
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The Ontological Significance of Inscrutability
Part of Philosophical Topics, p. 115-134, 2007
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Part of Inquiry, p. 559-574, 2007
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Part of Nous, p. 519-528, 2007
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Part of Philosophy Compass, 2006
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Part of Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, p. 12-23, 2006
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Part of Philosophical Perspectives, 2006
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Finzione, Indifferenzia e Ontologia
Part of Rivista di Estetica, p. 71-92, 2006
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Fiction, Indifference, and Ontology
Part of Philosophy and phenomenological research, p. 557-579, 2005
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Part of Philosophical Studies, p. 27-60, 2005
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Personal Identity, Concerns, and Indeterminacy
Part of The Monist, p. 489-511, 2004
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Part of Australasian Journal of Philosophy, p. 321-331, 2002
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Is Hintikka's Logic First-Order?
Part of Synthese, p. 371-388, 2002
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Part of Filosofisk Tidskrift, p. 42-52, 2002
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Part of Philosophy and phenomenological research, p. 251-275, 2002
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Personal Identity and Conceptual Incoherence
Part of Nous, p. 465-485, 2002
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Supervaluationism, Vagueifiers, and Semantic Overdetermination
Part of Dialectica, p. 363-378, 2001
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The Aims of Logical Empiricism as a Philosophy of Science
Part of Acta Analytica, p. 137-159, 2000
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On How Logic Became First-Order
Part of Nordic journal of philosophical logic, p. 147-167, 1996
Articles, review/survey
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Part of Journal of Moral Philosophy, p. 89-104, 2017
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Review of Pedersen & Wright, Truth and Pluralism: Current Debates
Part of Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2014
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Review of Alexis Burgess and John Burgess, Truth
Part of History and Philosophy of Logic, p. 106-108, 2012
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Part of Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2011
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Review of Eli Hirsch, Quantifier Variance and Realism: Essays in Metaontology
Part of Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2011
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Part of Analysis Reviews, 2011
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Review of Heather Dyke, Metaphysics and the Representational Fallacy
Part of Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2008
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Review of Timothy Williamson, The Philosophy of Philosophy
Part of Australasian Journal of Philosophy, p. 752-754, 2008
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Review of Fraser MacBride (ed.), Identity and Modality
Part of Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2007
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Review of Stewart Shapiro, Vagueness in Context
Part of Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2006
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Review of William Alston (ed.), Realism and Antirealism
Part of Dialogue, p. 786-788, 2005
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Review of Jc Beall (ed.), Liars and Heaps
Part of Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2004
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Review of Crispin Wright, Saving the Differences
Part of Philosophical Review, p. 288-292, 2004
Books
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Alien Structure: Language and Reality
Oxford University Press, 2024
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Oxford University Press, 2017
Chapters in book
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Alternative Concepts, Ardor, and Elusive Questions
Part of New Essays on Normative Realism, p. 112-140, Oxford University Press, 2025
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Representation, Alien Languages, and Linguistic Idealism
Part of The Question of Linguistic Idealism, p. 260-282, Oxford University Press, 2025
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Replies to Festschrift Contributors
Part of Festschrift for Matti Eklund, Uppsala University, 2024
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Part of Thomasson on Ontology, p. 137-161, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023
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Part of The Routledge Handbook of Properties, p. 417-426, Routledge, 2023
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Collapse and the Varieties of Quantifier Variance
Part of The Language of Ontology, p. 44-64, Oxford University Press, 2021
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Conceptual Engineering in Philosophy
Part of The Routledge Handbook of Social and Political Philosophy of Language, p. 15-30, Routledge, 2021
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The Metametaphysics of Neo-Fregeanism
Part of The Routledge Handbook of Metametaphysics, Routledge, 2020
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Variance Theses in Ontology and Metaethics
Part of Conceptual Engineering and Conceptual Ethics, p. 187-203, Oxford University Press, 2020
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Incoherentism and the Sorites Paradox
Part of The Sorites Paradox, p. 78-94, Cambridge University Press, 2019
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What is Deflationism About Truth?
Part of Truth, p. 208-221, Bloomsbury Academic, 2019
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Part of Maurinian Truths, p. 143-149, Department of Philosophy, Lund University, 2019
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En värld som utgörs av begrepp: G.E. Moores tidiga metafysik
Part of Från Skaradjäkne till Uppsalaprofessor, Uppsala University, 2017
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Carnap's Legacy for the Contemporary Metaontological Debate
Part of Ontology after Carnap, Oxford University Press, 2016
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Hale and Wright on the Metaontology of Neo-Fregeanism
Part of Abstractionism, Oxford University Press, 2016
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Intuitions, Conceptual Engineering, and Conceptual Fixed Points
Part of The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophical Methods, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
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Part of Metasemantics, Oxford University Press, 2014
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Evaluative Language and Evaluative Reality
Part of Thick Concepts, Oxford University Press, 2013
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Part of Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Language, Routledge, 2012
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Part of New Waves on Philosophy of Logic, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
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Vagueness and Second-Level Indeterminacy
Part of Cuts and Clouds, Oxford University Press, 2011
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Part of New Waves in Truth, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
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Part of Central Issues of Philosophy, Wiley-Blackwell, 2009
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Carnap and Ontological Pluralism
Part of Metametaphysics, Oxford University Press, 2009
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Part of Following Putnam's Trail: On Realism and Other Issues, Rodopi, 2008
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The Liar Paradox, Expressibility, Possible Languages
Part of The Revenge of the Liar, Oxford University Press, 2008
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The Picture of Reality as an Amorphous Lump
Part of Contemporary Debates in Metaphysics, Wiley-Blackwell, 2007
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The Liar Paradox and Metaphysics
Part of Paradox: Logical, Cognitive and Communicative Aspects, p. 25-31, University of Latvia Press, 2006
Collections (editor)
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200 Years of Analytic Philosophy
New Prairie Press, 2008
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Paradox: Logical, Cognitive and Communicative Aspects
University of Latvia Press, 2006
Conference papers
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A Vindication of Tarski's Claims about the Liar Paradox
Part of The Logica Yearbook 2001, p. 49-55, 2001
Other
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Part of Philosophical Review, p. 330-335, 2021
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Book review: Simon Kirchin, Thick Evaluation
Part of Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2018
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Book review: Amie Thomasson, Ontology Made Easy
Part of Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2017