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Exploring The Metaphysics Of Grief, Carolyn Garland
Exploring The Metaphysics Of Grief, Carolyn Garland
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The goal of this dissertation is to develop an understanding of grief utterances: expressions of grief that in losing a loved one, the bereaved lost a part of herself. Grief utterances are commonplace, and their accompanying phenomenology suggests they are true. That gives us reason to think they are true. But if they are, what makes them true? I establish two potential answers to this question, ultimately favoring one according to which when a loved one dies we lose parts of our practical identities.
Chapter One introduces and sets up this topic it. It then focuses on the extent to …
Exploring The Metaphysics Of Grief, Carolyn Garland
Exploring The Metaphysics Of Grief, Carolyn Garland
Dissertations - ALL
The goal of this dissertation is to develop an understanding of grief utterances: expressions of grief that in losing a loved one, the bereaved lost a part of herself. Grief utterances are commonplace, and their accompanying phenomenology suggests they are true. That gives us reason to think they are true. But if they are, what makes them true? I establish two potential answers to this question, ultimately favoring one according to which when a loved one dies we lose parts of our practical identities.
Chapter One introduces and sets up this topic it. It then focuses on the extent to …