Below are the publications that have been written as part of this project so far, as well as details of forthcoming special issues. Stay tuned for further updates. For a comprehensive bibliography of philosophical works focused on grief, click here.
Ratcliffe, M. (forthcoming). ‘The Underlying Unity of Hope and Trust’. The Monist.
Cole, J. and Ratcliffe, M. (2022). 'Illness, Injury, and the Phenomenology of Loss: A Dialogue'. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 29 (9–10), pp. 150–174.
Ratcliffe, M., Millar, B. and Richardson, L. (2022) 'Introduction: Understanding Grief: Feeling, Intentionality, Regulation, and Interpretation'. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 29 (9–10), pp. 7–12.
Debus, D. and Richardson, L. (2022) 'Rather than Succour, My Memories Bring Eloquent Stabs of Pain' On the Ambiguous Role of Memory in Grief'. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 29 (9–10), pp. 36–62.
Ratcliffe, M. (2022). 'Phenomenological reflections on grief during the COVID-19 pandemic'. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences (on-line first).
Ratcliffe, M. (2022). Grief Worlds: A Study of Emotional Experience. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Hughes, E. (2022). 'The Depths of Temporal Desynchronization in Grief'. Psychopathology (on-line first).
Ratcliffe, M. and Byrne, E. A. (2022). ‘Grief, Self, and Narrative’. Philosophical Explorations (on-line first).
Millar, B., Lopez-Cantero, P. (2022). Grief, continuing bonds, and unreciprocated love. The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 60 (3), pp. 413–436.
Richardson, L. (2022). Absence experience in grief. European Journal of Philosophy (on-line first).
Ratcliffe, M., Richardson, L., Millar, B. (2022). On the appropriateness of grief to its object. Journal of the American Philosophical Association, pp. 1–17.
Ratcliffe, M. & Byrne, E. A., (2022). The Interpersonal and Social Dimensions of Emotion Regulation in Grief. In Allan Køster & Ester Holte Kofod. Eds. Grief Experience: Cultural, Existential and Phenomenological Perspectives. London: Routledge, pp. 84–98.
Millar, B. (2021). 'Grief's Impact on Sensorimotor Expectations: An Account of Non-Veridical Bereavement Experiences'. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences (on-line first).
Millar, B. & Lee, J. (2021). 'Horror Films and Grief.' Emotion Review, 13(3), pp. 171–182.
Ratcliffe, M. (2021). 'Trauma, Language, and Trust'. In Anna Bortolan and Elisa Magri. Eds. Empathy, Intersubjectivity, and the Social World: The Continued Relevance of Phenomenology. De Gruyter, pp. 323–342.
Richardson, L., Ratcliffe, M., Millar, B., Byrne, E. (2021). 'The Covid-19 Pandemic and the Bounds of Grief'. Think, 20(57), pp. 89–101.
Kamp, K. S.; Steffen, E. M.; Alderson-Day, B.; Allen, P.; Austad, A.; Hayes, J.; Larøi, F.; Ratcliffe, M.; Sabucedo, P. (2020) 'Sensory and Quasi-Sensory Experiences of the Deceased in Bereavement: An Interdisciplinary and Integrative Review'. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 46(6), pp. 1367–1381.
Ratcliffe, M. (2021). 'Sensed Presence without Sensory Qualities: A Phenomenological Study of Bereavement Hallucinations', Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 20, pp. 601–616.
Ratcliffe, M. (2020). 'Towards a Phenomenology of Grief: Insights from Merleau-Ponty'. European Journal of Philosophy, 28(3), pp. 657–669.
Cole, J. and Ratcliffe, M. (2022). 'Illness, Injury, and the Phenomenology of Loss: A Dialogue'. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 29 (9–10), pp. 150–174.
Ratcliffe, M., Millar, B. and Richardson, L. (2022) 'Introduction: Understanding Grief: Feeling, Intentionality, Regulation, and Interpretation'. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 29 (9–10), pp. 7–12.
Debus, D. and Richardson, L. (2022) 'Rather than Succour, My Memories Bring Eloquent Stabs of Pain' On the Ambiguous Role of Memory in Grief'. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 29 (9–10), pp. 36–62.
Ratcliffe, M. (2022). 'Phenomenological reflections on grief during the COVID-19 pandemic'. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences (on-line first).
Ratcliffe, M. (2022). Grief Worlds: A Study of Emotional Experience. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Hughes, E. (2022). 'The Depths of Temporal Desynchronization in Grief'. Psychopathology (on-line first).
Ratcliffe, M. and Byrne, E. A. (2022). ‘Grief, Self, and Narrative’. Philosophical Explorations (on-line first).
Millar, B., Lopez-Cantero, P. (2022). Grief, continuing bonds, and unreciprocated love. The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 60 (3), pp. 413–436.
Richardson, L. (2022). Absence experience in grief. European Journal of Philosophy (on-line first).
Ratcliffe, M., Richardson, L., Millar, B. (2022). On the appropriateness of grief to its object. Journal of the American Philosophical Association, pp. 1–17.
Ratcliffe, M. & Byrne, E. A., (2022). The Interpersonal and Social Dimensions of Emotion Regulation in Grief. In Allan Køster & Ester Holte Kofod. Eds. Grief Experience: Cultural, Existential and Phenomenological Perspectives. London: Routledge, pp. 84–98.
Millar, B. (2021). 'Grief's Impact on Sensorimotor Expectations: An Account of Non-Veridical Bereavement Experiences'. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences (on-line first).
Millar, B. & Lee, J. (2021). 'Horror Films and Grief.' Emotion Review, 13(3), pp. 171–182.
Ratcliffe, M. (2021). 'Trauma, Language, and Trust'. In Anna Bortolan and Elisa Magri. Eds. Empathy, Intersubjectivity, and the Social World: The Continued Relevance of Phenomenology. De Gruyter, pp. 323–342.
Richardson, L., Ratcliffe, M., Millar, B., Byrne, E. (2021). 'The Covid-19 Pandemic and the Bounds of Grief'. Think, 20(57), pp. 89–101.
Kamp, K. S.; Steffen, E. M.; Alderson-Day, B.; Allen, P.; Austad, A.; Hayes, J.; Larøi, F.; Ratcliffe, M.; Sabucedo, P. (2020) 'Sensory and Quasi-Sensory Experiences of the Deceased in Bereavement: An Interdisciplinary and Integrative Review'. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 46(6), pp. 1367–1381.
Ratcliffe, M. (2021). 'Sensed Presence without Sensory Qualities: A Phenomenological Study of Bereavement Hallucinations', Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 20, pp. 601–616.
Ratcliffe, M. (2020). 'Towards a Phenomenology of Grief: Insights from Merleau-Ponty'. European Journal of Philosophy, 28(3), pp. 657–669.
Special Issues
'Understanding Grief'
Special issue in Journal of Consciousness Studies, 29 (9–10) (2022)
Editors: Matthew Ratcliffe, Louise Richardson & Becky Millar
'Understanding Grief'
Special issue in Journal of Consciousness Studies, 29 (9–10) (2022)
Editors: Matthew Ratcliffe, Louise Richardson & Becky Millar
Contributors and Titles
- Matthew Ratcliffe, Louise Richardson & Becky Millar (University of York) - “Introduction”
- Jennifer Radden (University of Massachusetts, Boston) - "The 'Pain' of Grief"
- Dorothea Debus (University of Konstanz) and Louise Richardson (University of York) - “'Rather than Succour, My Memories Bring Eloquent Stabs of Pain': On the Ambiguous Role of Memory in Grief”
- Michael Cholbi (University of Edinburgh) - “Grief as Attention”
- Allan Køster (University of Aalborg) - “A Deeper Feeling of Grief"
- Jan Slaby (Free University of Berlin) - “Intentionality’s Breaking Point: Lessons From Grief”
- Kathleen Higgins (University of Texas at Austin) - “Music's Role in Relation to Phenomenological Aspects of Grief”
- Jonathan Cole (Poole Hospital and University of Bournemouth) and Matthew Ratcliffe (University of York) - "Illness, Injury, and the Phenomenology of Loss: A Dialogue"
- Eleanor A. Byrne (University of York) - "Grief in Chronic Illness: A Case Study of CFS/ ME"
- Tasia Scrutton (University of Leeds) - “Interpretation and the Shaping of Experience: Theology of Suffering and C.S. Lewis's A Grief Observed”
- Joel Krueger and Lucy Osler (University of Exeter) - “Communing with the Dead Online: Chatbots, Grief, and Continuing Bonds”
- Jason Throop (UCLA) - “The Gift of Grief”
Forthcoming Special Issues
'Emotions of the Pandemic: Phenomenological Perspectives'
Special issue in Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
Editors: Luna Dolezal & Matthew Ratcliffe
'Emotions of the Pandemic: Phenomenological Perspectives'
Special issue in Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
Editors: Luna Dolezal & Matthew Ratcliffe
Blurb
The COVID-19 pandemic and accompanying social restrictions have been associated with a range of emotional experiences, some of which are unusual, unsettling, disorienting, and puzzling. The aims of this special issue are twofold:
(1) To show how interdisciplinary phenomenological research can enhance our understanding
of individual and collective emotional experiences during the pandemic, including
experiences of anxiety, grief, shame, and distrust.
(2) To investigate how studying this unprecedented situation can further our understanding of
human emotional experience.
To pursue these aims, we will bring together the work of four major, collaborative research projects, all of which are currently engaging with various aspects of pandemic-experience:
(1) To show how interdisciplinary phenomenological research can enhance our understanding
of individual and collective emotional experiences during the pandemic, including
experiences of anxiety, grief, shame, and distrust.
(2) To investigate how studying this unprecedented situation can further our understanding of
human emotional experience.
To pursue these aims, we will bring together the work of four major, collaborative research projects, all of which are currently engaging with various aspects of pandemic-experience:
- Shame and Medicine (Principal Investigator: Luna Dolezal)
- Grief: A Study of Human Emotional Experience (Principal Investigator: Matthew Ratcliffe)
- Experiences of Social Distancing during the COVID-19 Pandemic (Principal Investigator: Tom Froese)
- Antagonistic Political Emotions (Principal Investigator: Thomas Szanto)
Contributors and Proposed Titles
- Anna Bortalan (Swansea University) - 'Healing Online? Anxiety and Self-Transformation in Pandemic Experience'
- Havi Carel (University of Bristol) - 'I Do, I Undo, I Redo: Post-pandemic Being in the World'
- Tom Froese (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology) - 'Social Restrictions and Interpersonal Experience'
- Emily Hughes (University of York) - 'Pandemic Boredom'
- Becky Millar & Louise Richardson (University of York) - 'The Experience of Loss during the Pandemic'
- Lucy Osler (University of Copenhagen) - WTF? - 'Indignation and Online Expressivity during COVID-19'
- Ruth Rebecca Tietjen (University of Copenhagen) - 'Feeling (and Performing) the Crisis'
- Dylan Trigg & Leyla Sophie Gleissner (University of Vienna) - 'Nostalgia, Melancholy, and the Pandemic'
- Jan Slaby (Freie Universität Berlin) - 'Emotional Truth'
- Luna Dolezal (University of Exeter) - 'Pandemic Poverty and Chronic Shame: A Phenomenological Account'
- Matthew Ratcliffe (University of York) - 'Social Restrictions, Emotion Regulation, and the
Phenomenology of Grief' - Arthur Rose & Luna Dolezal (University of Exeter) - 'A Sartrean Analysis of Pandemic Shaming'
- Pablo Fernandez Velasco, Roberto Casati & Bastien Perroy (Institut Jean-Nicod) - 'The Phenomenology of Disorientation during the Pandemic'
- Kirsten Jacobson (University of Maine) - 'Layered Spaces and Faces: The Shifting Landscapes of Place and Interpersonal Connection in the COVID-19 Pandemic'
- Kevin Aho (Florida Gulf Coast University) - 'The Experience of Loneliness among the Elderly during the COVID-19 Pandemic'
- Matthew Broome & Clara Humpston (University of Birmingham) - 'The Phenomenology of Moral Injury in Healthcare Professionals'