?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Default+Assumptions+of+Good+Behavior&rft.creator=Morton%2C+Adam&rft.subject=Developmental+Psychology&rft.subject=Ethics&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Mind&rft.description=This+paper+connects+Turiel's+discovery+that+small+children+distinguish+between+moral+and+conventional+norms+with+the+theory+of+mind+debate+and+with+contemporary+work+in+moral+philosophy.+My+aim+is+to+explain+both+why+pre-schoolers+can+easily+make+a+moral%2Fconventional+distinction%2C+and+why+at+some+later+age+it+becomes+harder+to+grasp+such+a+distinction.+My+answer%2C+in+a+nutshell%2C+is+that+there+is+a+simple+moral%2Fconventional+distinction+that+is+well+within+the+capabilities+of+very+small+children%2C+but+this+distinction+is+not+the+right+one+for+adult+use%2C+for+reasons+which+are+explicit+in+contemporary+work+in+moral+philosophy.+So+when+children+begin+to+grasp+these+complications%2C+we+can+expect+their+earlier+simple+certainty+to+vanish.+Moreover%2C+the+contrast+between+the+kinds+of+capacities+needed+to+negotiate+the+earlier+moral%2Fconventional+distinction+and+those+needed+to+understand+the+reasons+for+its+inadequacy+are+related+to+those+on+either+side+of+the+famous+'false+belief'+divide.&rft.date=1996&rft.type=Preprint&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F236%2F1%2F199801001.html&rft.identifier=++Morton%2C+Adam++(1996)+Default+Assumptions+of+Good+Behavior.++%5BPreprint%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F236%2F