Below are the publications that have been written as part of this project so far. Stay tuned for further updates. For a comprehensive bibliography of philosophical works focused on grief, click here.
Karina Stengaard Kamp, Edith Maria Steffen, Ben Alderson-Day, Paul Allen, Anne Austad, Jacqueline Hayes, Frank Larøi, Matthew Ratcliffe, Pablo Sabucedo. (2020) Sensory and Quasi-Sensory Experiences of the Deceased in Bereavement: An Interdisciplinary and Integrative Review, Schizophrenia Bulletin, sbaa113.
Richardson, L., Ratcliffe, M., Millar, B., Byrne, E. (In Press). The Covid-19 Pandemic and the Bounds of Grief. Think.
Ratcliffe, M. (in preparation). The World of Grief: A Study of Human Emotion. Under contract with MIT Press.
Ratcliffe, M. (2020). 'Sensed Presence without Sensory Qualities: A Phenomenological Study of Bereavement Hallucinations', Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences.
Ratcliffe, M. (2019). 'Towards a Phenomenology of Grief: Insights from Merleau-Ponty'. European Journal of Philosophy, 1-13.
Richardson, L., Ratcliffe, M., Millar, B., Byrne, E. (In Press). The Covid-19 Pandemic and the Bounds of Grief. Think.
Ratcliffe, M. (in preparation). The World of Grief: A Study of Human Emotion. Under contract with MIT Press.
Ratcliffe, M. (2020). 'Sensed Presence without Sensory Qualities: A Phenomenological Study of Bereavement Hallucinations', Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences.
Ratcliffe, M. (2019). 'Towards a Phenomenology of Grief: Insights from Merleau-Ponty'. European Journal of Philosophy, 1-13.
Selected Presentations
The Philosophy of Grief
The research project, Grief: A Study of Human Emotional Experience, is a philosophical investigation into what it is to experience grief. It focuses on aspects of grief that people struggle to make sense of and to convey to others.
In this talk, we’ll examine how grief unfolds over time and how this process is scaffolded by interpersonal relationships. We’ll focus on how grief involves a gradual process of comprehension or ‘sinking in’, a process that is shaped in important ways by one’s participation in the social world.
Drawing upon our ongoing questionnaire study into first-person experiences of grief, we’ll also discuss ways in which this process of ‘sinking in’ will have been impacted by social restrictions put in place during the Covid-19 pandemic.
In this talk, we’ll examine how grief unfolds over time and how this process is scaffolded by interpersonal relationships. We’ll focus on how grief involves a gradual process of comprehension or ‘sinking in’, a process that is shaped in important ways by one’s participation in the social world.
Drawing upon our ongoing questionnaire study into first-person experiences of grief, we’ll also discuss ways in which this process of ‘sinking in’ will have been impacted by social restrictions put in place during the Covid-19 pandemic.