Digital Souls: A Philosophy of Online Death

by Patrick Stokes

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 philosophical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350139157
• ISBN13: 9781350139152
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"