Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

Sources of knowledge

Knowledge can be defined as awareness of facts or as practical skills, and may also refer to familiarity with objects or situations. Knowledge of facts, also called propositional knowledge, is often defined as true belief that is distinct from opinion or guesswork by virtue of justification.

3 episodes

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  1. Memory

    Melvyn Bragg discusses the significance of memory. Is it a repository of events waiting to be plucked to consciousness?

    29 May 2003

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    Featuring: Martin Conway, Mike Kopelman, Kim Graham

     
  2. Memory and Culture

    Melvyn Bragg discusses how our ways of remembering have changed and explores whether memory itself can remain forever unchanged in its role within our psychology.

    27 May 1999

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    Featuring: Malcolm Bowie, Nancy Wood

     
  3. Perception and the Senses

    Melvyn Bragg discusses perception: how the brain reacts to the mass of data continually crowding it and examines what governs our perception of the world.

    28 April 2005

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    Featuring: Richard Gregory, David Moore, Gemma Calvert