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Biography
I am an Assistant Professor in Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin. I held a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at the University of Leeds. I received my PhD from UCL in 2019. My research is about motivation in rational self-conscious agents. I am interested in desire, rational agency, reasons, and how they are related. I am currently working on a book on desire. I have also been thinking about need, self-control, self-knowledge of desire and affect.
Publications and Further Research Outputs
- Ashley Shaw, Urges, Philosophical Review, 133, (2), 2024, p151 - 191Journal Article, 2024, DOI
- Ashley Shaw, The Necessity of 'Need', Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy, 133, (3), 2023, p329 - 354Journal Article, 2023, DOI
- Ashley Shaw, Desire and What It's Rational to Do, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 99, (4), 2020, p761 - 775Journal Article, 2020, DOI
- Ashley Shaw, Needs as Causes, The Philosophical Quarterly, (pqae146), 2025Journal Article, 2025, DOI
- Ashley Shaw, Do affective desires provide reasons for action?, Ratio, 34, (2), 2020, p147 - 157Journal Article, 2020, DOI
- Ashley Shaw, Poppy Mankowitz, Focus on slurs, Mind & Language, 38, (3), 2023, p693 - 710Journal Article, 2023, DOI