Acting and Thinking Together

Michael Bratman (Stanford University)

The Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge, in conjunction with Routledge present the eighth annual Routledge Lecture in Philosophy.

Michael Bratman
U. G. and Abbie Birch Durfee Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, and Professor of Philosophy atStanford University will present:

Routledge Lecture in Philosophy: Acting and Thinking Together

Date: Thursday 12th June 2014
Time: 5.30pm – 6.30pm
Venue: Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall, Trinity Lane, Cambridge CB2 1TJ

Abstract: Human beings act together in characteristic ways, and these forms of shared intentional and shared cooperative activity matter to us a great deal. Think of friendship, singing duets, and the joys of conversation. And think about the usefulness of conversation and of how we frequently manage to work together to achieve complex goals, from constructing buildings to putting on plays to establishing important results in the sciences. I seek a framework for understanding these basic forms of sociality. And the conjecture I explore in this talk is that structures of individual planning agency are at the heart of such sociality.

The lecture is FREE and open to the public, no reservations or tickets necessary.

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