Speaker: Michael Bratman (Stanford University)
Michael Bratman is U. G. and Abbie Birch Durfee Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University.
His work has been unusually influential, with significance in disciplines as diverse as philosophy, computer science, law, and primatology. His main research interests are in the philosophy of action, where this includes issues about social agency and about practical rationality. His book publications are Intention, Plans, and Practical Reason (1987); Faces of Intention: Selected Essays on Intention and Agency (1999); Structures of Agency: Essays (2007); Shared Agency: A Planning Theory of Acting Together (2014); Planning, Time, and Self-Governance: Essays in Practical Rationality (2018); and Shared and Institutional Agency (2022). He is co-editor of Introduction to Philosophy: Classical and Contemporary Readings. He has been awarded an ACLS Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and fellowships from the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and the Stanford University Humanities Center. he is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His joint paper with David Israel and Martha Pollack, “Plans and Resource-Bounded Practical Reasoning,” Computational Intelligence 4 (1988): 349-355, was the recipient of the 2008 International Foundation of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems influential paper award. He has been President of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association and was Chair of the National Board of the American Philosophical Association from 2011-2014. In 2014 he received the American Philosophical Association’s Philip L. Quinn Prize “in recognition of service to philosophy and philosophers, broadly construed.” In 2019 he received the Lebowitz Prize for philosophical achievement and contribution. In 2024 he presented the Dewey Lecture at the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association.
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Everyone interested is welcome to attend.
The meeting will be held in English.
Participation is strongly recommended for students of the Doctoral School in Philosophy and Human Sciences and for students of the Doctoral School “The Human Mind and its Explanations: Language, Brain, and Reasoning”.
Where: Online
When: 24/09/2025 – 17:00 CET
Attendance: Attendance is free and open to all, but registration is needed by email [angelica.kaufmann@unimi.it]