Patrick Stokes is a Marie Curie Fellow in Philosophy, in the School of Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. He is undertaking the project "Selves in Time: Temporal Emplacement and Affective Identification in Personal Identity Theory" (2010-2012).

He is also an Honorary Fellow in the School of Philosophy, Anthropology and Social Inquiry at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and recently completed a two-year postdoctoral research project (funded by the Danish Research Council for the Humanities) at the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Stokes' work sits at the intersections of the Continental and Analytic philosophical traditions. His research interests include 19th and 20th century European philosophy, the metaphysics of death, narrative selfhood, personal identity, moral psychology and philosophy of religion. A particular focus of his work has been bringing Kierkegaard into dialogue with contemporary analytic philosophy, while his current project at Hertfordshire explores temporal and perspectival aspects of the question of selfhood.