Week 1: Originals and copies
Introduction
In this free course, Exploring philosophy: faking nature, you will examine the restoration thesis. But what is the restoration thesis?
Watch the following video that introduces the idea of the restoration thesis.
Transcript: Introduction
This week you are going to look at the broad question of originals and copies. In many circumstances, originals are valued more than copies even if there is no obvious difference between them. Why is this? Is it just snobbery? If it is not just snobbery, what is it that makes an original more valuable? This ties into the broader question of why details of something’s history should make a difference to how it is thought about now.
This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course A853 MA Philosophy Part I [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] .