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Michael E. Bratman

Michael E. Bratman

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

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

Michael E. Bratman publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 122 publications — 26th percentile

26% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Michael E. Bratman D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Michael E. Bratman sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 45 D-Index — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

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

    Michael E. Bratman

  • Shared cooperative activity

    Michael E. Bratman

  • 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

    Hugh J. McCann;M. E. Bratman

  • Ruling Passions: A Theory of Practical Reasoning

    Michael E. Bratman

  • Reflection, Planning, and Temporally Extended Agency

    Michael E. Bratman

  • Intention, Practical Rationality, and Self-Governance

    Michael E. Bratman

  • Identification, Decision, and Treating as a Reason

    Michael E. Bratman

  • Structures of agency

    Michael E. Bratman

  • Modest sociality and the distinctiveness of intention

    Michael E. Bratman

  • Valuing and the Will

    Michael E. Bratman

  • Practical reasoning and weakness of the will

    Michael Bratman

  • Intention, Belief, Practical, Theoretical

    Michael E. Bratman

  • TIME, RATIONALITY, AND SELF‐GOVERNANCE

    Michael E. Bratman

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

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  • Planning, Time, and Self-Governance

    Michael E. Bratman

  • XV—Two Problems about Human Agency

    Michael E. Bratman

  • Intention and means-end reasoning

    Michael Bratman

  • Fischer and Ravizza on Moral Responsibility and History

    Michael E. Bratman

Frequent Co-Authors

Christine M. Korsgaard
Christine M. Korsgaard Harvard University
Martha E. Pollack
Martha E. Pollack Cornell University

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