Emmanuel Genot

Emmanuel Genot is a Researcher at the Department of Philosophy within Lund University's Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology, affiliated with the Information Quality Research Group (LUIQ). He specializes in Epistemology and Game-Theoretic Models of Inquiry, integrating formal approaches with empirical data from cognitive science.

His research focuses on:

• Developing algorithmic models of scientific inquiry using Hintikka's Interrogative Model
• Analyzing the Sherlock Holmes sense of deduction as a logic of discovery
• Studying epistemological impacts of search engine personalization (filter bubbles)
• Investigating strategic memory use in single/multi-agent inquiry
• Modeling information quality in digital environments

Recent publications include:

• 2024: Agent-based model of online content diffusion (Topoi)
• 2023: Game-theoretic analysis of social media sharing (arXiv)
• 2021: Epistemology of fake news (Oxford UP)

He collaborates extensively within the Knowledge in a Digital World project (2013-2017) and the Filter Bubbles Regulation project (2018-2023), funded by the Swedish Research Council and The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation. His work contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goals related to information quality and digital ethics.