About
Mikhail Volkov is a philosopher and logician working in rational choice theory and social epistemology. His current research consists in decision-theoretic treatment of problems in social virtue epistemology. In particular, he examines what goods individuals pursue in salient decision-making environments like social media and the ensuing effects of subjectively rational strategies on the agents’ intellectual character. His other research interests and competencies include game theory, network modelling of social behaviour and philosophy of technology.
Before starting the PhD at LSE, he received his MA from the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy at LMU Munich with a thesis on evolutionary game-theoretic simulations. Before that, he received a BSc in Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method from LSE where he wrote a dissertation on Löb’s theorem and its application to trust in self-modifying AI.
Research Interests
- Social and virtue epistemology
- Decision- and game-theoretic models and explanations
- Philosophy of technology and social media
- Applications of evolutionary game theory to moral norms
- Agent-based simulations and their methodology