Ratcliffe, Matthew James orcid.org/0000-0003-4519-4833 (2020) Sensed Presence without Sensory Qualities : A Phenomenological Study of Bereavement Hallucinations. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. p. 1. ISSN 1568-7759
Abstract
This paper addresses the nature of sensed-presence experiences that are commonplace among the bereaved and occur cross-culturally. Although these experiences are often labelled bereavement hallucinations, it is unclear what they consist of. Some seem to involve sensory experiences in one or more modalities, while others involve a non-specific feeling or sense of presence. I focus on a puzzle concerning the latter: it is unclear how an experience of someone’s presence could arise without a more specific sensory content. I suggest that at least some of these experiences consist in a dynamic and non-localized experience of significant and salient possibilities. This can amount to the sense of currently relating to a particular individual and, by implication, a sense of that person’s presence. Where an experience of this kind also includes sensory qualities, they are inessential to the sense of relatedness and perhaps symptomatic of it.
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Institution: | The University of York | ||||
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (York) > Philosophy (York) | ||||
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Depositing User: | Pure (York) | ||||
Date Deposited: | 12 Mar 2020 15:20 | ||||
Last Modified: | 06 Dec 2023 13:35 | ||||
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-020-09666-2 | ||||
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Identification Number: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-020-09666-2 | ||||
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