Journal Articles

“Animated Personas and Remnant Personhood: The Case of Deathbots” Philosophy and Technology 39:146 (2026) pp.1-19

“‘It’s What They Would Have Wanted’: Personhood, Agency, and Executor Bots” Australasian Journal of Philosophy online early

“Sensing Presence: Deathbots and Bereavement Hallucination” Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences online early

M R.X. Dentith and P. Stokes “Corresponding Conspiracy Theory Theorists Parts I-III” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 13:5 (2024) pp. 15-32

“Selves, Persons, and the Neo-Lucretian Symmetry Problem” Philosophia 52 (2024): 69-86

“Kierkegaardian Virtues and the Problem of Self-Effacement” Religions 14:10 (2023): 1240

“The Normative Turn in Conspiracy Theory Theory?” Social Epistemology (online early) 37:4 (2023) pp.535-43

Petra Brown and Patrick Stokes “Bonhoeffer and Løgstrup: the Ethics of Disclosure in a State of Exception” Sophia 59:2 (2020): 229-46

“To Trust the Liar: Løgstrup and Levinas on Ethics, War, and Openness” The Monist 103:1 (2020): 102-16

“Are There Dead Persons?” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 49:6 (2019): 755-75

“Towards a New Epistemology of Moral Progress” European Journal of Philosophy 25:4 (2017): 1824-1843

“Temporal Asymmetry and the Self/Person Split” Journal of Value Inquiry 51:2 (2017): 203-219

“Science communication and the public intellectual: a view from philosophy” JCOM: Journal of Science Communication 16:01 (2017), C03: 1-6

“Reluctance and Suspicion: Reply to Basham and Dentith” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 6:2 (2017): 48-58

Stokes, P. (2016) “Between Generalism and Particularism about Conspiracy Theory: A Response to Basham and Dentith.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 5:10 (2016): 34-39

“The Problem of Spontaneous Goodness: From Kierkegaard to Løgstrup (Via Zhuangzi and Eckhart)” Continental Philosophy Review 49:2 (June 2016) pp.139-159

“Deletion as Second Death: The Moral Status of Digital Remains” Ethics and Information Technology 17:4 (December 2015) pp.237-248

“The Untameable Logic of Sacrifice” (review article on P. Diego Bubbio’s Sacrifice in the Post-Kantian Tradition) Critical Horizons 16:3 (August 2015) pp.299-304

“Crossing the Bridge: The First-Person and Time” Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 13:2 (May 2014): 295–312

“Will It Be Me? Identity, Concern, and Perspective” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 43:2 (September 2013): 206-226

“Ghosts in the Machine: Do the Dead Live On in Facebook?” Philosophy and Technology 25:3 (September 2012): 363-379

“Is Narrative Identity Four-Dimensionalist?” European Journal of Philosophy 20:S1 (June 2012): 86-106

“Uniting the Perspectival Subject: Two Approaches” Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 10:1 (February 2011): 23-44

“Fearful Asymmetry: Kierkegaard’s Search for the Direction of Time” Continental Philosophy Review 43:4 (December 2010): 485-507

“Naked Subjectivity: Minimal vs. Narrative Selfhood in Kierkegaard” Inquiry 53:4 (August 2010): 356–382

“‘See For Your Self’: Contemporaneity, Autopsy and Presence in Kierkegaard’s Moral-Religious Psychology” British Journal for the History of Philosophy 18:2 (April 2010): 297-319

“What’s Missing in Episodic Selfhood? A Kierkegaardian Response to Galen Strawson” Journal of Consciousness Studies17:1-2 (February 2010): 119-143

See also Galen Strawson, “Owning the Past: Reply to Stokes” Journal of Consciousness Studies 18:3-4 (April 2011): 170-95

“Locke, Kierkegaard and the Phenomenology of Personal Identity” International Journal of Philosophical Studies 16:5 (December 2008): 645-672

“’Interest’ in Kierkegaard’s Structure of Consciousness” International Philosophical Quarterly 48:4, 192 (December 2008): 437-458

“Kierkegaardian Vision and the Concrete Other” Continental Philosophy Review 39:4 (December 2006): 393-413

“Kierkegaard’s Mirrors: The Immediacy of Moral Vision” Inquiry 50:1 (February 2007): 70-94