- Abstract:
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The accusation of virtue signalling is typically understood as a serious charge. Those accused usually respond (if not by an admission of fault) by attempting to show that they are doing no such thing. In this paper, I argue that we ought to embrace the charge, rather than angrily reject it. I argue that this response can draw support from cognitive science, on the one hand, and from social epistemology on the other. I claim that we may appropriately concede that what we are doing is (inter a...
Expand abstract - Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
- Publisher:
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Synthese Journal website
- Publication date:
- 2020-04-16
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-04-03
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1573-0964
- ISSN:
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0039-7857
- Pubs id:
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1100817
- Local pid:
- pubs:1100817
- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- Copyright holder:
- Neil Levy
- Copyright date:
- 2020
- Rights statement:
- © The Author(s) 2020. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
- License:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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Virtue signalling is virtuous
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