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Michael Bratman

Stanford University
Philosophy Department

Michael E. Bratman is U. G. and Abbie Birch Durfee Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, and Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University. He is the author of Intention, Plans, and Practical Reason (1987), Faces of Intention: Selected Essays on Intention and Agency (1999), Structures of Agency: Essays (2007) and various articles in the philosophy of action and related fields.

http://www-philosophy.stanford.edu/fss/mb.html

Project Summary

I aim to write a book about shared agency -- about what it is to act together – and about associated phenomena of shared intention and shared valuing. My approach draws on and extends conceptual resources provided by my earlier work on what I have called the planning theory of intention.