Matti Eklund is a Swedish analytic philosopher and professor at Uppsala University, known for his work in metaontology, metaethics, and philosophy of language. He has contributed influential accounts of ontological pluralism and the semantics of normative discourse, arguing that fundamental questions about what exists and what matters are deeply intertwined with questions about conceptual frameworks. His research spans the nature of normative properties, fictionalism, and the metaphysics of abstract objects.
Developed a prominent account of ontological pluralism, holding that multiple quantifier concepts can be equally legitimate
Contributed to debates on normative realism, including identifications of wrongness with natural properties
Advanced fictionalist and non-fictionalist frameworks for understanding normative and abstract discourse
Produced influential work on the relationship between language, ontology, and conceptual engineering
Professor at Uppsala University, contributing to Scandinavian analytic philosophy