Blakely is interested in how philosophical problems arise from apparent conflicts in perspective: i.e. our experience of awareness versus physical facts, the agential perspective versus the nonagantial perspective, and realism versus anti-realism about values and meaning. She is interested in any and all extreme forms of skepticism, and how and whether attempts to meet them, such as transcendental arguments, work.
She has a warm spot in her heart for '50s and '60s manuals on philosophical method, and did her undergrad work at a school with equally idealistic methodological presuppositions: St. John's College, Annapolis.
