Holroyd, J. (2024) Proleptic praise: a social function analysis. Noûs, 58 (4). pp. 905-926. ISSN 0029-4624
Abstract
What is praise? I argue that we can make progress by examining what praise does. Functionalist views of praise are emerging, but I here argue that by foregrounding cases in which expressions of praise are rejected by their direct target, we see that praise has a wider, and largely overlooked, social function. I introduce cases in which praise is rejected, and develop a functionalist account of praise that is well placed to make sense of the contours of these cases. My claim is that praise functions to affirm and entrench values, exerting pressure in praise's audiences to affirm the values expressed. I show how my account overcomes some of the limitations of recently developed accounts of praise.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2023 The Authors. Noûs published by Wiley Periodicals LLC. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes. |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > Department of Philosophy (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number Mind Association Mind Association MIND ASSOCIATION UNSPECIFIED |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 22 Nov 2023 16:49 |
Last Modified: | 12 Mar 2025 12:11 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/nous.12482 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:205481 |
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