Journal article
Intellectual virtue signaling
- Abstract:
- Discussions of virtue signaling to date have focused exclusively on the signaling of the moral virtues. This article focuses on intellectual virtue signaling: the status-seeking advertising of supposed intellectual virtues. Intellectual virtue signaling takes distinctive forms. It is also far more likely to be harmful than moral virtue signaling, because it distracts attention from genuine expertise and gives contrarian opinions an undue prominence in public debate. The article provides a heuristic by which to identify possible instances of intellectual virtue signaling. When people with no relevant expertise rapidly move to offer their opinions on a wide range of topics as soon as these topics become fashionable or newsworthy, and especially when these opinions are contrarian, we should suspect them of intellectual virtue signaling.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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(Preview, Accepted manuscript, pdf, 315.6KB, Terms of use)
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.5406/21521123.60.3.07
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- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- Journal:
- American Philosophical Quarterly More from this journal
- Volume:
- 60
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 311–324
- Publication date:
- 2023-07-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2022-10-01
- DOI:
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2152-1123
- ISSN:
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0003-0481
- Language:
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English
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- Pubs id:
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1280447
- Local pid:
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pubs:1280447
- Deposit date:
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2022-10-01
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- Copyright date:
- 2023
- Rights statement:
- © 2023 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
- Notes:
- This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available from University of Illinois Press at: 10.5406/21521123.60.3.07
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