This is the academic web page of Nils Franzén.

Since the spring of 2022, I have been an associate professor of philosophy at Umeå University in Sweden. Before coming to Umeå I was a post-doc at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. I did my PhD at Uppsala University. 

My work concerns a range of issues in the philosophy of language, metaethics and aesthetics. I've written about, among other things, the nature of moral and aesthetic thought and discourse, fictional speech, and statements about the future.  I'm also interested in the history of philosophy, in particular the 20th century. You can contact me at nils.franzen@umu.se