Author: Margaret Ogden

Margaret Ogden

Sofia, Reviews

The Thoughtful Guide to Science and Religion

Margaret Ogden reviews Dr Meredith’s The Thoughtful Guide to Science and Religion, a personal search through science, experience and religion, noting its meditation chapters and realist conclusions and offering her own evolutionary view of spirituality.

1 March 2006

What It Is to Be Human

Margaret Ogden traces human evolution from early mammals to Homo floresiensis, suggests the brain evolved a ‘religious acquisition device’, and asks whether evolved selfishness will let us act on climate and global need.

1 March 2005

Being Good: An Introduction to Ethics

Margaret Ogden recommends Simon Blackburn’s Being Good: An Introduction to Ethics, a readable and well-illustrated short book on standards, virtue, happiness and duty.

1 September 2001