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Michael E. Bratman

Michael E. Bratman

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
45
Citations
23076
World Ranking
3724
National Ranking
1779

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2000 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Michael E. Bratman is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on philosophy, with significant contributions to political science and international relations, as well as cognitive neuroscience. The work also touches upon general health professions and safety research.

The main topics covered in Michael E. Bratman's research include:

  • Philosophical Ethics and Theory
  • Political Philosophy and Ethics
  • Free Will and Agency
  • War, Ethics, and Justification
  • Ethics in medical practice
  • Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation

Their recent papers demonstrate ongoing engagement with philosophical issues related to agency, planning, and ethics. Notable papers include:

  • "A Planning Theory of Acting Together" (2022), published in the Journal of the American Philosophical Association
  • "Planning and Its Function in Our Lives" (2023), Journal of Applied Philosophy
  • "Tomasello on "we" and the sense of obligation" (2020), Behavioral and Brain Sciences
  • "Two Faces of Our Idea of Acting Together" (2022), Journal of the American Philosophical Association
  • "The Messiness of Instrumental Rationality: Reflections on Chrisoula Andreou's Choosing Well" (2024), Philosophia

Michael E. Bratman frequently publishes in several venues, with multiple contributions in:

  • Journal of the American Philosophical Association
  • Philosophia
  • Noûs
  • Journal of Applied Philosophy
  • Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Collaboration forms an important aspect of their scholarship. Frequent co-authors include Hector-Neri Castan, Ernest Sosa, Earl Conee, Manuel García-Carpintero, and H. R. G. Greaves, each with multiple joint works.

Michael E. Bratman has been recognized with distinctions such as being named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012 and a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2000.

Best Publications

  • Intention, Plans, and Practical Reason

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  • Shared cooperative activity

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  • Faces of Intention: Selected Essays on Intention and Agency

    Michael E. Bratman

  • Shared Agency: A Planning Theory of Acting Together

    Michael E. Bratman

  • Two faces of intention

    Michael Bratman

  • Structures of agency : essays

    Michael Bratman

  • Practical Reasoning and Acceptance in a Context

    Michael E. Bratman

  • Intention, Plans, and Practical Reason

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  • Ruling Passions: A Theory of Practical Reasoning

    Michael E. Bratman

  • Reflection, Planning, and Temporally Extended Agency

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  • Intention, Practical Rationality, and Self-Governance

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  • Identification, Decision, and Treating as a Reason

    Michael E. Bratman

  • Structures of agency

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  • Modest sociality and the distinctiveness of intention

    Michael E. Bratman

  • Valuing and the Will

    Michael E. Bratman

  • Practical reasoning and weakness of the will

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  • Intention, Belief, Practical, Theoretical

    Michael E. Bratman

  • TIME, RATIONALITY, AND SELF‐GOVERNANCE

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  • Faces of Intention: Practical Reasoning and Acceptance in a Context

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  • Planning, Time, and Self-Governance

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  • XV—Two Problems about Human Agency

    Michael E. Bratman

  • Intention and means-end reasoning

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  • Fischer and Ravizza on Moral Responsibility and History

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Frequent Co-Authors

Christine M. Korsgaard
Christine M. Korsgaard Harvard University

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