Blease studied philosophy of science and mind at Queen's University, Belfast.
[2] She has held research appointments in the UK, Germany, Ireland, and the USA including at Harvard University in the United States.
[2] In 2012 she was a winner of the UK-wide BBC New Generation Thinkers competition for promising young researchers.
[6] Currently, she is Keane Researcher at OpenNotes, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, USA .
In 2016 Blease was appointed, alongside Stephen Fry and Lord Neuberger as Patron of SAPERE the UK’s leading educational charity in philosophy for children.