School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry

Dr Reza Maleeh

Honorary Research Fellow in Philosophy
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Qualifications

2005 - 2008
PhD in Cognitive Science
Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, Germany
Supervisor: Professor Dr Achim Stephan
Dissertation Title: The Conscious Mind Revisited: an Informational Approach to the Hard Problem of Consciousness
Grade: summa cum laude
 
2001 - 2004
Master of Arts in Philosophy of Science
Department of Philosophy of Science, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
Supervisor: Associate Professor Afshin Shafiee
Dissertation Title: An Explanatory Study of Common Cause Principle in Bell Correlations
Grade: 3.56/4
 

Research Interests

  • Developing pragmatic information as a Unified Theory of Information (UTI)
  • Information-theoretic approaches to the theories of the relationship of mind and matter
  • Pragmatism and its application to philosophy of mind and philosophy of quantum mechanics

Current Research Project

  • Developing pragmatic information as a Unified Theory of Information (UTI)

Publications

Journal Articles (14)

Journal Articles

Maleeh, Reza and Konjedi, Shaghayegh (2022). Meta-awareness, mind wandering and negative mood in the context of the continuity hypothesis of dreaming. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 23 (1), 1-27. doi: 10.1007/s11097-022-09835-5
Konjedi, Shaghayegh and Maleeh, Reza (2021). The dynamic framework of mind wandering revisited: how mindful meta-awareness affects mental states’ constraints. Consciousness and Cognition, 95 103194, 103194. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2021.103194
Konjedi, Shaghayegh and Maleeh, Reza (2018). Sleep and mindfulness meditation as they relate to false memory. Psychological Research, 84 (4), 1084-1111. doi: 10.1007/s00426-018-1098-0
Konjedi, Shaghayegh and Maleeh, Reza (2017). A closer look at the relationship between the default network, mind wandering, negative mood, and depression. Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, 17 (4), 697-711. doi: 10.3758/s13415-017-0506-z
Maleeh, Reza (2017). Quantum interpretations and scientific explanation in paradigmatic quantum experiments. Filozofia Nauki, 25 (4), 5-30.
Maleeh, Reza (2015). Mind, matter, information and quantum interpretations. Information, 6 (3), 314-338. doi: 10.3390/info6030314
Maleeh, Reza and Stephan, Achim (2015). Consciousness: emergent and real. Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia, 6 (3), 486-491. doi: 10.4453/rifp.2015.0047
Maleeh, Reza (2015). Minds, Brains and Programs: An Information-theoretic Approach. Mind and Matter, 13 (1), 71-103.
Maleeh, Reza (2014). Bohr’s Philosophy in the Light of Peircean Pragmatism. Journal for General Philosophy of Science, 46 (1), 3-21. doi: 10.1007/s10838-014-9274-4
Maleeh, Reza (2014). Pragmatic information as a unifying biological concept. Information, 5 (3), 451-478. doi: 10.3390/info5030451
Maleeh, Reza and Amani, Parisa (2013). Pragmatism, Bohr, and the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 27 (4), 349-363. doi: 10.1080/02698595.2013.868182
Maleeh, Reza and Amani, Parisa (2012). Bohm’s theory of the relationship of mind and matter revisited. NeuroQuantology, 10 (2), 150-163.
Shafiee, A., Maleeh, R. and Golshani, M. (2008). Common cause and contextual realization of Bell correlation. Annals of Physics, 323 (2), 432-443. doi: 10.1016/j.aop.2007.02.005
Safinejad, F., Shafiee, A. and Maleeh, R. (2006). Bell's inequality and contextual information. International Journal of Quantum Information, 4 (4), 641-651. doi: 10.1142/S0219749906002110