🧠 Explore a new moral-cognitive framework that redefines knowledge as care through the lens of epistemic intimacy in relationships.

A theoretical synthesis introducing epistemic psychology—a framework uniting cognition, ethics, and relational science. Based on the Kahl Model of Epistemic Dissonance (KMED-R), it reconceptualises knowing as fiduciary care and introduces FBT, TACM, and the Intimate Epistemic Oath as tools for diagnosing trust and dependence.

KMED-R (Relationships) is a conceptual Python simulator modelling epistemic intimacy and trust. It extends the Kahl Model of Epistemic Dissonance (KMED) to relationships, formalising how recognition, suppression, repair and fiduciary care shape autonomy, tolerance and dependence in epistemic psychology.

The Fiduciary Mind redefines cognition as a moral–epistemic process grounded in trust, candour, and care. Extending What Happens When You Clap?, it develops a phenomenology of fiduciary cognition where dissonance signals ethical imbalance and knowing becomes a reciprocal act of truth-keeping between mind and world.

An epistemic-ethical critique of higher education using the University of Reading’s LLM experience as case study. Diagnoses epistemic clientelism and optocratic drift, proposing a pedagogy of fiduciary dialogue grounded in trust, candour, and justice—feedback as covenant, not survey.

A landmark study redefining democracy through fiduciary-epistemic theory. This paper argues that AI firms function as knowledge fiduciaries and that democracy’s survival depends on embedding fiduciary duties—candour, care, impartiality, and accessibility—into the architecture of AI governance. It proposes new legal forms such as Epistemic Fiduciary

Scripts implementing the Kahl Model of Epistemic Dissonance (KMED). Includes mathematical formulations and Python simulations of epistemic clientelism, fiduciary scaffolding, regime switching, gaslighting, and dissonance training. Companion to Epistemic Clientelism in Intimate Relationships (Appendix A).

Comprehensive thesis on institutional corruption, epistemic clientelism, and fiduciary breaches in UK higher education journalism, exposing elite dominance and democratic erosion.

Comprehensive dissertation by Peter Kahl on epistemic justice in higher education. Develops a fiduciary framework for universities as stewards of the epistemic commons, integrating philosophy, law, and comparative case studies.

Directors’ fiduciary obligations extend beyond finance to include epistemic duties. This thesis develops normative and operational frameworks for embedding epistemic openness into corporate governance, strengthening accountability, innovation, and legitimacy.

A landmark interdisciplinary study that redefines cognitive dissonance and trust as foundations of knowing. Not a psychology paper but a theory-of-knowledge manifesto in psychological form—bridging mind, ethics, and governance.

A philosophical and fiduciary analysis expanding on Joel Suss’s Financial Times “Free Lunch” column (26 Oct 2025). This paper argues that America’s polarised economy reflects a fiduciary collapse of trust across political, corporate, and civic systems, proposing epistemic humility as a framework for renewal.