Virtue Signalling is Virtuous

Neil Levy (Oxford University, Macquarie University), Neil Levy (Macquarie University)

Virtue signalling has come in for a lot of stick recently. It allegedly subverts the primary function of moral discourse  and has bad effects on how we form moral judgments. I argue that virtue signalling just is a primary function of morality and plays a virtuous role in helping us to come to justified moral beliefs.

Neil Levy is Professor of Philosophy at Macquarie University and a Senior Researcher at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford. He is President of the Australasian Association of Philosophy.