Professor Nagireddy Neelakanteswar Reddy has always had a theoretical inclination to Cognitive science/Psychology. Accordingly, he pursued a BA in Psychology and Philosophy, an MA in Philosophy (from the University of Hyderabad), an MPhil in Cognitive Science (from the University of Hyderabad), and a PhD in Cognitive Science (from IIT Gandhinagar). He is a cognitive psychologist who raises theoretical/philosophical questions that are answered by the meta-analysis of the findings of empirical Psychology. In his research, he wishes to undertake meta-analytic case studies concerning the theories of cognitive penetrability, and multisensory integrability etc. He is also interested in experimenting, primarily to test and evaluate theories (in cognitive psychology).

Apart from the theoretical issues in cognitive psychology, Professor Reddy is also interested in working on the philosophical/theoretical as well as practical implications of the (evolutionary) naturalistic approach to human mind and existence, such as free will and purpose in life.  

Professor Nagireddy Neelakanteswar Reddy’s MPhil work developed an analogy between the biological evolutionary processes and the cognitive epistemic processes. His PhD work raised theoretical/philosophical as well as metascientific issues concerning the construct of “sense of agency.” His post-PhD work has ventured into the metascientific issues in sensory-perceptual processes like cognitive penetration and multisensory integration.

• Reddy, N.N (2022). Non-Motor Cues do not Generate the Perception of Self-Agency: A Critique of Cue-Integration, Consciousness and Cognition, 103.
• Reddy, N.N (2022). The Implicit Sense of Agency Is Not a Perceptual Effect but Is a Judgment Effect, Cognitive Processing, 23. 1-13.
• Reddy, N.N (2021). Cognitive Penetration Is an Instance of Experimental Confounding ― Due to the Operationalization of Perception As a Magnitude Estimation (Rather Than As a Category Identification), The Journal of Mind and Behavior, 42(1). 73-98. 
• Reddy, N.N (2020). The Explicit Sense of Agency ― as Operationalized in Experimental Paradigms ― is not a Feeling, but Is a Judgment, The Journal of Mind and Behavior, 41(3&4). 177-210.
   

• Introduction to Psychology
• Evolutionary Psychology
• Thinking and Reasoning
• Philosophy of Psychology