Philosophy of Grief and Loss at York
@griefyork.bsky.social
Philosophers investigating experiences of Grief and Loss at the University of York. Previously an AHRC funded project: https://www.griefyork.com. Posting our own work, and things we find interesting.
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✨Announcing Picturing Grief: a collaborative project with
Projecting Grief✨
Projecting Grief have produced a series of images to raise awareness of our Grief Survey: a rich searchable database of first-person testimonies of grief. (1/2)
Projecting Grief✨
Projecting Grief have produced a series of images to raise awareness of our Grief Survey: a rich searchable database of first-person testimonies of grief. (1/2)
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International Association for the Philosophy of Death and Dying will be holding its sixth biennial conference June 9-11, 2026 at Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. The deadline for abstract submissions is 3 November 2025.
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October 22, 2025 at 5:14 AM
International Association for the Philosophy of Death and Dying will be holding its sixth biennial conference June 9-11, 2026 at Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. The deadline for abstract submissions is 3 November 2025.
www.philosophyofdeath.org/sixth-bienni...
www.philosophyofdeath.org/sixth-bienni...
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I’m hosting a workshop on Social AI at the Uni of Exeter, generously funded by the Society of Applied Philosophy (10&11 Feb). If you fancy joining us to present your work, please submit an abstract!
Confirmed speakers: Rob Clowes, Pii Telakivi, Joel Krueger, Tom Roberts, & me. #philsky
I’m hosting a workshop on Social AI at the Uni of Exeter, generously funded by the Society of Applied Philosophy (10&11 Feb). If you fancy joining us to present your work, please submit an abstract!
Confirmed speakers: Rob Clowes, Pii Telakivi, Joel Krueger, Tom Roberts, & me. #philsky
October 28, 2025 at 4:25 PM
✨CFA✨
I’m hosting a workshop on Social AI at the Uni of Exeter, generously funded by the Society of Applied Philosophy (10&11 Feb). If you fancy joining us to present your work, please submit an abstract!
Confirmed speakers: Rob Clowes, Pii Telakivi, Joel Krueger, Tom Roberts, & me. #philsky
I’m hosting a workshop on Social AI at the Uni of Exeter, generously funded by the Society of Applied Philosophy (10&11 Feb). If you fancy joining us to present your work, please submit an abstract!
Confirmed speakers: Rob Clowes, Pii Telakivi, Joel Krueger, Tom Roberts, & me. #philsky
'The Ephemerata: Shaping the Exquisite Nature of Grief': newly published graphic novel on grief by Carol Tyler.
"To struggle in the face of loss is a universal experience. To turn it into this compassionate, deep and beautiful book takes a true artist." @Graphic Policy reviews The Ephemerata: Shaping the Exquisite Nature of Grief by Carol Tyler! https://ow.ly/LQKv50XkA9a
The Ephemerata: Shaping the Exquisite Nature of Grief is dour but hauntingly beautiful - Graphic Policy
Drawing upon her own bereavement, renowned comics artist and writer Carol Tyler emerges from a decade long period of grief to create an allegorical masterpiece.
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November 1, 2025 at 11:43 AM
'The Ephemerata: Shaping the Exquisite Nature of Grief': newly published graphic novel on grief by Carol Tyler.
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5th Workshop on Philosophy of Emotions
The School of Philosophy at Zhejiang University is happy to invite submissions for our 5th Workshop on Philosophy of Emotions, dedicated to the theme of grief, to be held on June 5th, 2026.
We welcome...
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October 21, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Experiences of feeling 'haunted' by loss are common but under-explored. In this new paper, York's Matthew Ratcliffe argues that they involve continuing to experience possibilities as foreclosed:
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Feeling Haunted by Loss: Reflections on the Phenomenology of Possibility
Descriptions of feeling haunted in an emotional way are widespread. It is doubtful that the relevant experiences are reducible to any combination of established emotion categories, such as regret, re...
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October 4, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Experiences of feeling 'haunted' by loss are common but under-explored. In this new paper, York's Matthew Ratcliffe argues that they involve continuing to experience possibilities as foreclosed:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Our friends over at York St John University are running a project researching the efficacy of online bereavement groups. If you'd be interested in taking part in their next 10 week online support group you can self-refer here: www.yorksj.ac.uk/working-with...
Bereavement services | York St John University
A range of options to support people who are bereaved or experiencing grief.
www.yorksj.ac.uk
October 4, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Our friends over at York St John University are running a project researching the efficacy of online bereavement groups. If you'd be interested in taking part in their next 10 week online support group you can self-refer here: www.yorksj.ac.uk/working-with...
Louise Richardson and @pfvelasco.bsky.social's paper 'Ecological Grief as a Shared Emotion' is now published in Emotion Review!
The paper assesses (and ultimately endorses) the claim that grief felt in relation to ecological losses is a shared emotion.
doi.org/10.1177/1754....
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The paper assesses (and ultimately endorses) the claim that grief felt in relation to ecological losses is a shared emotion.
doi.org/10.1177/1754....
#philsky
Ecological Grief as a Shared Emotion - Pablo Fernandez Velasco, Louise Richardson, 2025
There is a growing interdisciplinary effort to understand the emotional dimensions of the climate crisis. A central focus in this line of research is ecological...
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September 23, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Louise Richardson and @pfvelasco.bsky.social's paper 'Ecological Grief as a Shared Emotion' is now published in Emotion Review!
The paper assesses (and ultimately endorses) the claim that grief felt in relation to ecological losses is a shared emotion.
doi.org/10.1177/1754....
#philsky
The paper assesses (and ultimately endorses) the claim that grief felt in relation to ecological losses is a shared emotion.
doi.org/10.1177/1754....
#philsky
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In a new paper, Louise Richardson argues that regret is a feeling of discomfort when real life seems worse than how things might (have) be(en). The account makes sense of different kinds of regret, helps us manage regret, and has interesting broader consequences. Read it here: t.ly/8_1s0
An encompassing account of regret
Philosophical attention to regret is typically focussed on the ethical issues it raises, leaving foundational questions about its objects and structure undecided. Here, these questions are at the f...
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September 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
In a new paper, Louise Richardson argues that regret is a feeling of discomfort when real life seems worse than how things might (have) be(en). The account makes sense of different kinds of regret, helps us manage regret, and has interesting broader consequences. Read it here: t.ly/8_1s0
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We feel the moral tug of grief -- but how can there be a duty to grieve the dead? Delighted to have this paper coming out with Jordan MacKenzie, arguing the duty is rooted in 'practical fidelity'. Look for it in Free and Equal in coming months! philpapers.org/rec/CHOGAA-3 @griefyork.bsky.social
Michael Cholbi & Jordan MacKenzie, Grief as a Duty of Practical Fidelity - PhilPapers
We often feel duty-bound to grieve our loved ones after their deaths. But how can we owe grief (or anything) to those who are no longer alive? We propose that the ...
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September 1, 2025 at 8:27 AM
We feel the moral tug of grief -- but how can there be a duty to grieve the dead? Delighted to have this paper coming out with Jordan MacKenzie, arguing the duty is rooted in 'practical fidelity'. Look for it in Free and Equal in coming months! philpapers.org/rec/CHOGAA-3 @griefyork.bsky.social
New paper alert! Project member Louise Richardson's paper 'An encompassing account of regret' has been accepted for publication in the journal Inquiry.
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August 15, 2025 at 10:54 AM
New paper alert! Project member Louise Richardson's paper 'An encompassing account of regret' has been accepted for publication in the journal Inquiry.
www.academia.edu/143418977/An...
#Philosophy #PhilSky
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Louise Richardson will be taking part in a 'Death Cafe' event at the Friends' Meeting House in Malton tomorrow Wednesday 13th, 9.30-11am. Death Cafes provide space for people to engage in open, meaningful conversations about death. (1/3)
August 12, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Louise Richardson will be taking part in a 'Death Cafe' event at the Friends' Meeting House in Malton tomorrow Wednesday 13th, 9.30-11am. Death Cafes provide space for people to engage in open, meaningful conversations about death. (1/3)
"When we grieve, we mourn the most precious things that we have lost. But poetry helps us to not only preserve them, but to transform them."
Ali Hammoud in @theguardian.com on the capacity of poetry to help us in grief.
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Ali Hammoud in @theguardian.com on the capacity of poetry to help us in grief.
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Grief has always been my companion: poetry taught me how to live with it | Ali Hammoud
Poetry allows our hearts to hover in that mysterious realm that lies between life and death, to catch glimpses of our soul
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August 12, 2025 at 7:12 AM
"When we grieve, we mourn the most precious things that we have lost. But poetry helps us to not only preserve them, but to transform them."
Ali Hammoud in @theguardian.com on the capacity of poetry to help us in grief.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Ali Hammoud in @theguardian.com on the capacity of poetry to help us in grief.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How might AI change the course of someone's grief? Project member Louise Richardson is quoted in this article in @theguardian.com, on the growing phenomenon of “digital resurrection”.
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Digital resurrection: fascination and fear over the rise of the deathbot
Ozzy Osbourne appeared as an AI-generated image at a recent Rod Stewart concert, prompting questions about how the ghoulish phenomenon will affect grieving
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August 11, 2025 at 8:07 AM
How might AI change the course of someone's grief? Project member Louise Richardson is quoted in this article in @theguardian.com, on the growing phenomenon of “digital resurrection”.
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
#PhilosophyOfGrief #Grief #Philosophy
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According to Camil Golub in this new paper in Ratio, a narrative approach to grief can solve a longstanding philosophical puzzle about its rationality.
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July 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM
According to Camil Golub in this new paper in Ratio, a narrative approach to grief can solve a longstanding philosophical puzzle about its rationality.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PhilSky
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PhilSky
"When we talk about the things that really matter — love, death, commitment, grief — with people we really care about, we give ourselves and each other permission to be ever-so-slightly less burdened by death and live more freely in the process."
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The modern taboo that Americans just can’t seem to break
What if we were a little less scared to talk about death?
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July 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
"When we talk about the things that really matter — love, death, commitment, grief — with people we really care about, we give ourselves and each other permission to be ever-so-slightly less burdened by death and live more freely in the process."
www.vox.com/advice/42078...
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"Every time I hear that song now when I’m on a football pitch. I look to the spot where she’d be dancing away, and I think of her. Sometimes it makes me feel good. Sometimes it crushes me."
Beth Mead on losing her Mum.
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Beth Mead on losing her Mum.
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For Mum | By Beth Mead
That’s just how grief works. Every time — even when it’s overwhelming — I can feel her with me. She’s always there.
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July 28, 2025 at 1:56 PM
"Every time I hear that song now when I’m on a football pitch. I look to the spot where she’d be dancing away, and I think of her. Sometimes it makes me feel good. Sometimes it crushes me."
Beth Mead on losing her Mum.
www.theplayerstribune.com/beth-mead-ws...
Beth Mead on losing her Mum.
www.theplayerstribune.com/beth-mead-ws...
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We collaborated on this animation that captures some of the ways in which grief was affected by social restrictions during the pandemic: www.uncleginger.com/grief-the-pa...
Grief & The Pandemic — Uncle Ginger
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June 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
We collaborated on this animation that captures some of the ways in which grief was affected by social restrictions during the pandemic: www.uncleginger.com/grief-the-pa...
Short film, 'Camp Widow': "This moving short documentary takes viewers inside a Camp Widow retreat, where those who’ve lost a partner are given an opportunity to connect and access resources to help them navigate this life stage."
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Grief, healing and laughter coexist at a unique retreat for widows and widowers | Aeon Videos
People who’ve lost an intimate partner often feel completely alone in their experience – Camp Widow helps them connect
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July 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Short film, 'Camp Widow': "This moving short documentary takes viewers inside a Camp Widow retreat, where those who’ve lost a partner are given an opportunity to connect and access resources to help them navigate this life stage."
aeon.co/videos/grief...
aeon.co/videos/grief...
Good to see former project member @eabyrne.bsky.social's work on grief and chronic illness getting some attention over on instagram, via Jessica Dore: www.instagram.com/p/DMVE5r0u-k...
July 24, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Good to see former project member @eabyrne.bsky.social's work on grief and chronic illness getting some attention over on instagram, via Jessica Dore: www.instagram.com/p/DMVE5r0u-k...
"People experiencing traumatic bereavement..may be haunted by disturbing images, nightmares or relentless thoughts about how their loved one died or suffered. Many wrestle with dread, spiritual disorientation and a shattered sense of safety in the world." theconversation.com/when-grief-i...
When grief involves trauma − a social worker explains how to support survivors of the recent floods and other devastating losses
Contrary to popular belief, grief doesn’t unfold in 5 neat stages. Yet, when loss is traumatic, it can take a heavy emotional and physical toll, leaving mourners and their supporters overwhelmed and u...
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July 18, 2025 at 11:45 AM
"People experiencing traumatic bereavement..may be haunted by disturbing images, nightmares or relentless thoughts about how their loved one died or suffered. Many wrestle with dread, spiritual disorientation and a shattered sense of safety in the world." theconversation.com/when-grief-i...
According to @birchlse.bsky.social,Taylor Swift's lyrics "can be connected to contemporary philosophical discussions of grief in ways that not only heighten appreciation of the songs but also deepen our understanding of grief."
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July 18, 2025 at 11:40 AM
According to @birchlse.bsky.social,Taylor Swift's lyrics "can be connected to contemporary philosophical discussions of grief in ways that not only heighten appreciation of the songs but also deepen our understanding of grief."
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#PhilosophyOfGrief #Philosophy
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#PhilosophyOfGrief #Philosophy
On the experience of bereaved families during the pandemic: "The overarching effect of public health measures, designed to contain the spread of COVID-19, assaulted human interactions in ways that are antithetical to health care and health-caring." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
“There is no dignity in this”: Understanding the experience of families facing death of a loved one during the COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic changed every aspect of how families managed the experience of dying loved ones. This Canadian study enrolled 24 immediate family members of patients who died of any cause dur...
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June 26, 2025 at 4:23 PM
On the experience of bereaved families during the pandemic: "The overarching effect of public health measures, designed to contain the spread of COVID-19, assaulted human interactions in ways that are antithetical to health care and health-caring." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Philosophy of grief keeps growing! Special issue of Philosophy and the Cognitive Sciences, 'Grief in the Digital Age', edited by @reginafabry.bsky.social / Marilyn Stendera. Lots to read on deathbots, virtual reality, and computer games! 🤖 rdcu.be/etBpm
The disruption of grief in the technological niche: The case of deathbots
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June 26, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Philosophy of grief keeps growing! Special issue of Philosophy and the Cognitive Sciences, 'Grief in the Digital Age', edited by @reginafabry.bsky.social / Marilyn Stendera. Lots to read on deathbots, virtual reality, and computer games! 🤖 rdcu.be/etBpm
Laura from our collaborators Projecting Grief was on BBC Radio York last week, talking about, amongst other things, our Grief Survey and the Picturing Grief project it inspired. Listen here from 18 minutes: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Picturing Grief: www.projectinggrief.com/picturing-gr...
Picturing Grief: www.projectinggrief.com/picturing-gr...
Daytimes on BBC Radio York - with Bek Homer (30/05/2025) - BBC Sounds
Great North Yorkshire stories, mid-morning updates and the music you love.
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June 2, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Laura from our collaborators Projecting Grief was on BBC Radio York last week, talking about, amongst other things, our Grief Survey and the Picturing Grief project it inspired. Listen here from 18 minutes: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Picturing Grief: www.projectinggrief.com/picturing-gr...
Picturing Grief: www.projectinggrief.com/picturing-gr...
Sending out some #PicturingGrief beermats today. Find out more on the project website: projectinggrief.com/picturing-gr... #grief
May 28, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Sending out some #PicturingGrief beermats today. Find out more on the project website: projectinggrief.com/picturing-gr... #grief