Biography
Patrick joined Deakin in 2012, having previously held research fellowships at the University of Hertfordshire, the University of Copenhagen and St Olaf College.
Patrick's work sits at the intersections of the Continental and Analytic traditions, with research interests in 19th and 20th Century European Philosophy, personal identity, narrative selfhood, moral psychology, death and remembrance, and philosophy of religion. A particular focus in recent years has been bringing Kierkegaard into dialogue with contemporary analytic philosophy of personal identity and moral psychology, as well as exploring temporal and perspectival aspects of the question of selfhood.
Patrick is the author of Digital Souls: A Philosophy of Online Death (Bloomsbury, 2021), The Naked Self: Kierkegaard and Personal Identity (Oxford, 2015) and Kierkegaard's Mirrors: Interest, Self, and Moral Vision (Palgrave, 2010), co-editor with John Lippitt of Narrative, Identity, and the Kierkegaardian Self (Edinburgh, 2015) and with Adam Buben of Kierkegaard and Death (Indiana University Press, 2011) and has published in edited collections and journals such as European Journal of Philosophy, Inquiry, Continental Philosophy Review, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Journal of Consciousness Studies, Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences and Philosophy and Technology.
Patrick is also a regular contributor to The Conversation, New Philosopher, and a regular media commentator on philosophical issues. He has also produced a number of radio programs for ABC Radio National's The Philosopher's Zone and The History Listen programs. He was awarded the Australasian Association of Philosophy Media Prize in 2014.
Read more on Patrick's profileResearch interests
Kierkegaard, personal identity, narrative selfhood, online death and survival, 19th and 20th century European philosophy, death and the moral/phenomenal status of the dead, moral psychology, philosophy of religion.
Affiliations
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK)
Advisory Board Member, Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook
Advisory Board Member, Philozofia (Slovakia)
Media appearances
- Regular contributor to The Conversation and contributor to ABC, Meanjin, The New Daily, Guardian Australia, The Age etc.
- Wrote, produced and presented radio documentaries 'The Lost Boys of Daylesford' (2021) and 'Last Light: The Valentich Mystery' (2019) for Radio National's The History Listen program
- Wrote, produced and presented radio programs "Gloomy Sunday" (2020), "The Bonhoeffer Moment" (2020), and "What's New in Death?" Parts 1 & Part 2 (2022) for Radio National's The Philosopher's Zone program
- Regular contributor to ABC774 Evenings and ABC Victoria Statewide Drive.
- Contributor to magazines including New Philosopher
- Commentator on philosophical matters on ABC local radio (various stations), Radio NZ, Sky News and commercial radio networks
Projects
- Affective identification and time
- Death and immortality in the digital age
- The moral psychology of K.E. Løgstrup
- The ethics of conspiracy theory
Publications
Selves, Persons, and the Neo-Lucretian Symmetry Problem
Patrick Stokes
(2024), pp. 1-18, Philosophia, Berlin, Germany, C1
'Either Shudder or Laugh': Kierkegaard on Schopenhauer
Patrick Stokes
(2023), pp. 469-481, The Schopenhauerian Mind, London, Eng., B1
Løgstrup and the Sovereignty of Trust
Patrick Stokes
(2023), pp. 165-181, Perspectives on Trust in the History of Philosophy, B1
Failed Temporalities in Either/Or
Patrick Stokes
(2023), pp. 116-134, Kierkegaard's Either/or A Critical Guide, Cambridge, Eng., B1
The Normative Turn in Conspiracy Theory Theory?
Patrick Stokes
(2023), Vol. 37, pp. 535-543, Social Epistemology, Oxford, Eng., C1
Kierkegaardian Virtues and the Problem of Self-Effacement
Patrick Stokes
(2023), Vol. 14, pp. 1-14, Religions, Basel, Switzerland, C1
Patrick Stokes, Sarah Pinto, Jack Reynolds, andrew Singleton
(2023), [Melbourne, Vic.], JR4
Can selves be naturalised? The problem of temporal perspective
Patrick Stokes
(2022), pp. 1-10, The Routledge Handbook of Liberal Naturalism, London, Eng., B1
From Here to Eternity: Soteriological Selves and Time
Patrick Stokes
(2022), pp. 61-78, Kierkegaard's The Sickness Unto Death, Cambridge, eng., B1
Patrick Stokes
(2021), pp. 200-207, Exploring the Philosophy of Death and Dying: Classical and Contemporary Perspectives, New York, N.Y., B1
Kierkegaard's Critique of the Internet
Patrick Stokes
(2020), pp. 125-145, Kierkegaard and Issues in Contemporary Ethics, Berlin, Germany, B1
Bonhoeffer and Løgstrup: the Ethics of Disclosure in a State of Exception
P Brown, P Stokes
(2020), Vol. 59, pp. 229-246, Sophia, C1
To Trust the Liar: Løgstrup and Levinas on Ethics, War, and Openness
P Stokes
(2020), Vol. 70, pp. 102-116, Quarterly Journal of Mathematics, C1
Consciousness, self, and reflection
Patrick Stokes
(2019), pp. 269-280, The Kierkegaardian mind, Abingdon, Eng., B1
The decay of digital personhood: towards new norms of disposal and preservation
Patrick Stokes
(2019), pp. 80-90, Residues of death: disposal refigured, Abingdon, Eng., B1
Introduction: Kierkegaard's life, context, and legacy
A Buben, E Helms, P Stokes
(2019), pp. 1-14, The Kierkegaardian mind, Abingdon, Eng., B1
The house always wins: why philosophy isn't optional
Patrick Stokes
(2019), pp. 15-26, Why philosophy?, Berlin, Germany, B1
P Stokes
(2019), Vol. 49, pp. 755-775, Canadian journal of philosophy, Abingdon, Eng., C1
Suspicion and reluctance: beyond particularism
P Stokes
(2018), pp. 25-37, Taking conspiracy theories seriously, Washington, D.C., B1
On some moral costs of conspiracy theory
P Stokes
(2018), pp. 187-200, Taking conspiracy theories seriously, Washington, D.C., B1
Phenomenology, Naturalism and Non-reductive Cognitive Science
Jack Reynolds, Catherine Legg, Patrick Stokes, Sean Bowden
(2018), Vol. 2, pp. 119-124, Australasian Philosophical Review, Abingdon, Eng., C1
Existentialist methodology and perspective: writing the first-person
J Reynolds, P Stokes
(2017), pp. 344-365, Cambridge companion to philosophical methodology, Cambridge, Eng., B1
Spontaneity and perfection: MacIntyre versus Løgstrup
P Stokes
(2017), pp. 275-299, What Is ethically demanded?: K. E. Logstrup's philosophy of moral life, Notre Dame, Ind., B1
Kierkegaard's dual individual: reconciling selfhood in the existentialist and analytic traditions
P Stokes
(2017), pp. 261-280, Kierkegaard's existential approach, Berlin, Germany, B1
Temporal asymmetry and the self/person split
P Stokes
(2017), Vol. 51, pp. 203-219, Journal of Value Inquiry, C1
Towards a new epistemology of moral progress
P Stokes
(2017), Vol. 25, pp. 1824-1843, European journal of philosophy, Chichester, Eng., C1
Science communication and the public intellectual: A view from philosophy
P Stokes
(2017), Vol. 16, Journal of Science Communication, C1
The problem of spontaneous goodness: from Kierkegaard to Løgstrup (via Zhuangzi and Eckhart)
P Stokes
(2016), Vol. 49, pp. 139-159, Continental Philosophy Review, C1
Narrative holism and the moment
P Stokes
(2015), pp. 1-1, Narrative, identity, and the Kierkegaardian self, Edinburgh, Scotland, B1
The untameable logic of sacrifice
P Stokes
(2015), Vol. 16, pp. 299-304, Critical horizons, London, Eng., C1
Deletion as second death: the moral status of digital remains
P Stokes
(2015), Vol. 17, pp. 237-248, Ethics and information technology, Berlin, Germany, C1
P Stokes
(2014), pp. 55-59, Kierkegaard's concepts tome II : classicism to enthusiasm, Aldershot, England, B1
The soul of a philosopher : reply to Turnbull
P Stokes, A Rudd
(2013), Vol. 2013, pp. 475-494, Kierkegaard studies yearbook, Berlin, Germany, C1
Crossing the bridge: the first-person and time
P Stokes
(2013), Vol. 13, pp. 1-18, Phenomenology and the cognitive sciences, Dordrecht, Netherlands, C1
Will it be me? Identity, concern, and perspective
P Stokes
(2013), Vol. 43, pp. 206-226, Canadian journal of philosophy, Abingdon, England, C1
Philosophy has consequences! Developing metacognition and active learning in the ethics classroom
P Stokes
(2012), Vol. 35, pp. 143-169, Teaching philosophy, Charlottesville, Va., C1
Is narrative identity four-dimensionalist?
P Stokes
(2012), Vol. 20, European journal of philosophy, Chichester, England, C1-1
Ghosts in the machine : do the dead live on in Facebook?
P Stokes
(2012), Vol. 25, pp. 363-379, Philosophy and technology, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, C1-1
Duties to the dead? Earnest imagination and remembrance
P Stokes
(2011), pp. 253-273, Kierkegaard and death, Bloomington, Indiana, B1-1
Uniting the perspectival subject: two approaches
P Stokes
(2011), Vol. 10, pp. 23-44, Phenomenology and the cognitive sciences, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, C1-1
Fearful asymmetry: Kierkegaard's search for the direction of time
P Stokes
(2010), Vol. 43, pp. 485-507, Continental philosophy review, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, C1-1
Naked subjectivity: minimal vs. narrative selves in Kierkegaard
P Stokes
(2010), Vol. 53, pp. 356-382, Inquiry: an interdisciplinary journal of philosophy, Abingdon, England, C1-1
P Stokes
(2010), Vol. 18, pp. 297-319, British journal for the history of philosophy, Abingdon, England, C1-1
What's missing in episodic selfhood? A Kierkegaardian response to Galen Strawson
P Stokes
(2010), Vol. 17, pp. 119-143, Journal of consciousness studies, Devon, England, C1-1
The science of the dead : proto-spiritualism in Kierkegaard's Copenhagen
P Stokes
(2009), pp. 132-149, Kierkegaard and the religious crisis of the 19th century, Sala, Slovakia, B1-1
Anti-climacus and neo-lockeanism : towards a Kierkegaardian personal identity theory
P Stokes
(2009), pp. 529-557, Kierkegaard studies yearbook 2009, Berlin , Germany, B1-1
Locke, Kierkegaard, and the phenomenology of personal identity
P Stokes
(2008), Vol. 16, pp. 645-672, International journal of philosophical studies, Abingdon, England, C1-1
"Interest" in Kierkegaard's structure of consciousness
P Stokes
(2008), Vol. 48, pp. 438-458, International philosophical quarterly, New York, NY, C1-1
Kierkegaard's mirrors: the immediacy of moral vision
P Stokes
(2007), Vol. 50, pp. 70-94, Inquiry, Abingdon, Eng., C1-1
Kierkegaardian vision and the concrete other
P Stokes
(2006), Vol. 39, pp. 393-413, Continental philosophy review, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, C1-1
Funded Projects at Deakin
Australian Competitive Grants
Digital Death and Immortality
A/Prof Patrick Stokes, Dr Adam Buben
ARC - Discovery Projects
- 2024: $9,752
Supervisions
Brodie Kennelly
Thesis entitled: Toward a Neo-Lockean Account of Our Obligations to the Dead
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Bhanuraj Kashyap
Thesis entitled: Levinas and Singer: A Dialogue on Reasons, Suffering and Compassion
Master of Arts, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Casey Leigh Scott
Thesis entitled: A Mentalistic Account of Teleology in Biology
Master of Arts, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Kane Pierce Simpson
Thesis entitled: Personhood, Animality, and Phenomenological Being
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Danica Janse Van Vuuren
Thesis entitled: A Phenomenology of Feelings of Worthlessness and Suicidality in Some Cases of Depression
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Racheal Harris
Thesis entitled: Animal Afterlives: Negotiating Post-Death Relationships Between Humans and Companion Animals
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Joshua Badge
Thesis entitled: Reconciling authority with reason: Gadamer and the problem of authority
Master of Arts, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Neil Henderson
Thesis entitled: Concerning: a Technique for Critique in a Digitally Mediated Civilisation
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Vincent Le
Thesis entitled: Being and Evil: Philosophy in the Shadow of Augustine
Master of Arts, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Maxine Therese
Thesis entitled: Philosophy of Childhood: The Fundamental Childhood Needs and Wellbeing
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences