From mechanical to autonomous agency: The relationship between children's moral judgments and their developing theories of mind | Zendy

Sokol Bryan W. | Zendy; Chandler Michael J. | Zendy; Jones Christopher | Zendy

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From mechanical to autonomous agency: The relationship between children's moral judgments and their developing theories of mind

Author(s) -

Sokol Bryan W.,

Chandler Michael J.,

Jones Christopher

Publication year - 2004

Publication title -

new directions for child and adolescent development

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.628

H-Index - 59

eISSN - 1534-8687

pISSN - 1520-3247

DOI - 10.1002/cd.95

Subject(s) - agency (philosophy) , action (physics) , psychology , epistemology , moral agency , moral disengagement , social cognitive theory of morality , theory of mind , moral development , moral psychology , moral reasoning , social psychology , cognition , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics , neuroscience

The authors criticize the central place of belief‐desire psychology in the theories‐of‐mind enterprise. They detail the merits of adopting a more agentive framework for conceptualizing human action and demonstrate how children's growing understanding of epistemic agency relates to advances in moral reasoning.

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