Charlotte Blease
Charlotte Blease is a Northern Irish science philosopher and cognitive scientist from Belfast, Northern Ireland. She is an Irish Research Council fellow and a University College Dublin lecturer.History
Blease studied philosophy and the philosophy of science at Queen's University, Belfast. Afterwards she attended Harvard University in the United States. Following this, Blease wrote a number of published academic papers on the issue of psychology and philosophy of science utilizing different schools of thought combined. She then started teaching at University College Dublin in the Republic of Ireland, specialising in research into placebos as a research fellow after a grant from the Irish Research Council. Blease also held the position of postdoctoral research fellow at the English University of Leeds and worked as a placebo research affiliate at Harvard Medical School.
Blease has been an advocate for the teaching of philosophy in schools and wrote in the British newspaper The Guardian supporting this.
