Ashley is currently a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Leeds. He was previously an Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Fellow at UCD and received his PhD from UCL in 2019.
His research is primarily in the philosophy of mind and action. He is currently working on a book project exploring desire and rational agency, and has further research interests in need, habit, self-control, and self-knowledge.
Ashley will take up his position in the Department this August.