Thursday, November 01, 2007
An Inconvenient Truth
This is a movie about global warming (which is really global climate change) and how Al Gore is trying to tell America to step it up and save the world. If you would like backgroup because you have not seen this movie please go to http://www.an-inconvenient-truth.com/ or just go to block buster and rent it! I just saw this movie a couple of days ago and had a light bub above my head when I noticed how many times Al Gore used his knowers perspective (half the time it didn't even relate to global warming but it seemed like a TOK essay in a way, not a good TOK essay, but an attempt to make one. After watching this movie or website's movie what sort of POK's are present? Are there any steps missing like there is no justification or the logic behind it is wrong or even the WOK's are even present in his arguement. Is this movie even worth of earning Al Gore a Noble Peace Prize? Tell me what you think, I curious if I am the only onethat thinks this movie is like Arcadia with some of the peoples journeys to prove something is the wrong way to do everything.
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I watched that movie in theaters.
Anyway...I actually thought most of what he said did correlate with global warming. I thought he used the Coherence theory a lot, because he gathered empirical evidence (which would also make it authority, because we'd have to trust that he gathered the evidence correctly) but he used that evidence and compared it to past events to show the difference and why it's more of a problem now. A lot of it does involve trusting him as an authority, and not everyone can do that. There are bits of knowledge that he left out justification for other than "he's authority on it". But that information, to me at the least, seemed more of descriptive knowledge that could be justified by consensus. I don't know, I haven't seen it in a few months, and it could be that I'm forgetting major points in which he did this, but I thought it was fairly well done, though I'm wary of the fact that he got the Nobel Peace Prize for it. I'm not opposed to it, but I'm not sure if it was indeed worth it.
Actually I'm glad you've begun the process of analyzing documentaries...
No matter whether you are watching a Michael Moore film, a historical look at WWI, or An Inconvenient Truth, documentaries are a fantastic way to use your TOK skills and something that we actually will ask you to do in a formal assignment in the near future. So keep watching them...
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