Patrick Stokes
Biographic Data
| ID | 3760589 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patrick Stokes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patrick |
| FAMILY NAME | Stokes |
| SIGNATURE | STOKES P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Deakin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9574-6064 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sensing presence
The prospects of AI-driven chatbots that can replicate the online presence of persons who have died (so-called ‘deathbots’) has given rise to concerns about the potential to replace the dead or disrupt the grieving process of their survivors. These concerns assume, however, that these ‘deathbots’ (hereafter Interactive Personality Constructs of the Dead, or IPCDs) could successfully replicate the experience of being in the (mediated) presence of …
The Normative Turn in Conspiracy Theory Theory
The papers contained in this special issue are evidence that the philosophy of conspiracy theory is undergoing a ‘normative turn’, with earlier concerns about the epistemological soundness of conspiracy theories now being supplemented by a shift to concerns about discursive and epistemic justice. This is a welcome development. Nonetheless, these normative concerns need to be seen within the context of an ongoing and largely undeclared disagreemen…
Kierkegaardian Virtues and the Problem of Self-Effacement
One of the more well-known objections to Kierkegaard's moral philosophy is that he presents a view of moral life that is self-absorbed almost to the point of solipsism, focused on the subject's own moral status rather than acting from responsiveness to others. Kierkegaard commentators have gone to great lengths to debunk such readings, to demonstrate that Kierkegaard is indeed a far more other-oriented ethicist than such critiques would suggest. …
Digital Souls
Social media is full of dead people. Nobody knows precisely how many Facebook profiles belong to dead users but in 2012 the figure was estimated at 30 million. What do we do with all these digital souls? Can we simply delete them, or do they have a right to persist? Philosophers have been almost entirely silent on the topic, despite their perennial focus on death as a unique dimension of human existence. Until now. Drawing on ongoing philosophica…
The problem of spontaneous goodness
Temporal Asymmetry and the Self/Person Split
Narrative, Identity and the Kierkegaardian Self
The Untameable Logic of Sacrifice
Paolo Diego Bubbio's Sacrifice in the Post-Kantian Tradition offers a valuable and insightful discussion of the place of sacrifice plays in nineteenth century European philosophy, setting the stage for its emergence as a central theme in subsequent continental thought. Bubbio offers a strong case for the claim that the foundational move of the post-Kantian tradition is a fundamentally kenotic one. Bubbio is also critical of certain excesses in th…
Kierkegaard and Levinas
Ghosts in the Machine
Fearful asymmetry
Kierkegaard's mirrors
Kierkegaard's Mirrors explores Kierkegaard's unique and challenging answers to these questions. Beginning with the structural account of consciousness offered in Johannes Climacus, this book develops a new phenomenological interpretation of what Kierkegaard calls 'interest': a self-reflexive mode of thought, vision, and imagination that plays a central role in moral experience. Tracing this concept across Kierkegaard's work takes us through topic…
Kierkegaardian vision and the concrete other
Kierkegaardian vision and the concrete other
Kierkegaard's mirrors
Kierkegaard's Mirrors explores Kierkegaard's unique and challenging answers to these questions. Beginning with the structural account of consciousness offered in Johannes Climacus, this book develops a new phenomenological interpretation of what Kierkegaard calls 'interest': a self-reflexive mode of thought, vision, and imagination that plays a central role in moral experience. Tracing this concept across Kierkegaard's work takes us through topic…
Fearful asymmetry
Kierkegaard and Levinas
Ghosts in the Machine
Narrative, Identity and the Kierkegaardian Self
The Untameable Logic of Sacrifice
Paolo Diego Bubbio's Sacrifice in the Post-Kantian Tradition offers a valuable and insightful discussion of the place of sacrifice plays in nineteenth century European philosophy, setting the stage for its emergence as a central theme in subsequent continental thought. Bubbio offers a strong case for the claim that the foundational move of the post-Kantian tradition is a fundamentally kenotic one. Bubbio is also critical of certain excesses in th…
The problem of spontaneous goodness
Temporal Asymmetry and the Self/Person Split
Digital Souls
Social media is full of dead people. Nobody knows precisely how many Facebook profiles belong to dead users but in 2012 the figure was estimated at 30 million. What do we do with all these digital souls? Can we simply delete them, or do they have a right to persist? Philosophers have been almost entirely silent on the topic, despite their perennial focus on death as a unique dimension of human existence. Until now. Drawing on ongoing philosophica…
The Normative Turn in Conspiracy Theory Theory
The papers contained in this special issue are evidence that the philosophy of conspiracy theory is undergoing a ‘normative turn’, with earlier concerns about the epistemological soundness of conspiracy theories now being supplemented by a shift to concerns about discursive and epistemic justice. This is a welcome development. Nonetheless, these normative concerns need to be seen within the context of an ongoing and largely undeclared disagreemen…
Kierkegaardian Virtues and the Problem of Self-Effacement
One of the more well-known objections to Kierkegaard's moral philosophy is that he presents a view of moral life that is self-absorbed almost to the point of solipsism, focused on the subject's own moral status rather than acting from responsiveness to others. Kierkegaard commentators have gone to great lengths to debunk such readings, to demonstrate that Kierkegaard is indeed a far more other-oriented ethicist than such critiques would suggest. …
Sensing presence
The prospects of AI-driven chatbots that can replicate the online presence of persons who have died (so-called ‘deathbots’) has given rise to concerns about the potential to replace the dead or disrupt the grieving process of their survivors. These concerns assume, however, that these ‘deathbots’ (hereafter Interactive Personality Constructs of the Dead, or IPCDs) could successfully replicate the experience of being in the (mediated) presence of …
Epistemology (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Kierkegaardian Philosophy and Influence (4 works) · Psychoanalysis (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (3 works) · Theology and Philosophy of Evil (3 works) · 1813-1855 (2 works)