Richardson, Louise Fiona orcid.org/0000-0001-9484-7015 (2022) Absence experience in grief. European Journal of Philosophy. ISSN 0966-8373
Abstract
In this paper, I consider the implications of grief for philosophical theorising about absence experience. I argue that whilst some absence experiences that occur in grief might be explained by extant philosophical accounts of absence experience, others need different treatment. I propose that grieving subjects’ descriptions of feeling as if the world seems empty or a part of them seems missing can be understood as referring to a distinctive type of absence experience. In these profound absence experiences, I will argue, the absence of a person as a condition on various possibilities is made manifest in the structure of experience over time. Thus, by paying close attention to grief we can see that even accounts of absence experience that are presented as in competition with one another may not be so, and that to explain all kinds of absence experience we sometimes need to appeal to something overlooked in other accounts, and which is neither straightforwardly perceptual or cognitive. I also suggest that we would have good reason to take such experiences to be part of and not merely psychological effects of grief.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 The Author |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (York) > Philosophy (York) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number AHRC AH/T000066/1 |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 22 Feb 2022 15:40 |
Last Modified: | 24 Jan 2025 00:11 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/ejop.12778 |
Status: | Published online |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/ejop.12778 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:184005 |
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