Summary of Week 2

This week you have explored a number of interesting claims. First, that knowing an object’s history can actually change the way that object looks. Therefore the assumption made in Week 1 (that experience of an object is one thing, and its history is another) may not be true. Secondly, you have seen that Elliot’s view is that pristine nature is valuable because it is ‘representative of the world outside our dominion, because [its] existence is independent of us’. This raises the question of how ‘weighty’ that value is. Is it weighty enough to be put against the benefits to humanity that might come from exploiting pristine nature?

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