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Exploring philosophy: faking nature
Exploring philosophy: faking nature

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1 Daisy Dixon

Part II is the heart, and longest part, of Elliot’s paper. You will read it in four chunks. Before you do that, listen below to Daisy Dixon – a researcher in philosophy at The University of Cambridge. Daisy considers two answers to the question put to her. You will then answer some questions in the following activity.

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Daisy Dixon on restoring nature
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Activity 1

Timing: Spend around 10 minutes on this activity.

Answer the following questions about the video in the text boxes below, and compare your notes with the feedback provided.

  1. Why does Daisy Dixon think there might be no loss of value?
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Answer

  1. She speculates that ‘the aesthetic value of that piece of nature hasn’t changed because we’ve just got the very same formal elements that we had originally’.
  1. Why does she think there might be a loss of value?
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  1. She speculates that ‘part of what made it beautiful was the fact that that it was untouched’. Obviously, this will not be true of the restoration.