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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 , social cognitive theory of morality , moral disengagement , moral development , moral psychology , theory of mind , social psychology , sociology , cognition , philosophy , neuroscience , physics , quantum mechanics
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.