🧠 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.

🧠 Explore a multimodal manifesto that empowers free thinking, challenges academic norms, and inspires self-emancipation through poetry, essays, and images.

A groundbreaking study in fiduciary-epistemic theory that reimagines the modern university as a constitutional guardian of knowledge. It exposes how marketisation and managerialism erode truth, compares universities to hybrid AI firms, and proposes legal reform to restore candour, accountability, and public trust in knowledge.

KMED-I models the newborn’s cry as the first epistemic event, simulating caregiver responses—fiduciary, inconsistent, neglectful, or silencing—and their impact on autonomy, dissonance tolerance, and dependence. A computational tool for developmental psychology, psychiatry, and epistemic theory.

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

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.

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.

An interdisciplinary analysis of substitutive visibility in academia, showing how executive-centred branding distorts epistemic credit, breaches fiduciary duties, and compounds testimonial and contributory injustice, with reforms for fiduciary openness and representational equity.

This paper develops Epistemic Clientelism Theory, analysing how academic institutions systematically delegate epistemic agency through clientelist exchange. It diagnoses fiduciary breaches, democratic failures, and epistemic injustices, and proposes fiduciary-epistemic governance reforms to restore autonomy and accountability.

A multimodal odyssey of poetry, prose, and image exploring epistemic clientelism, accreditation, doubt, emancipation, and the city of free thinkers.

This policy report argues that UK higher education should be treated as critical national infrastructure. It highlights systemic risks from market fragility, fiscal exposure, and governance opacity, and sets out reforms for fiduciary openness, resilience planning, and conflict-proofed oversight.

Peter Kahl’s essay critiquing epistemic gatekeeping, exposing peer review as a tool of epistemic clientelism and advocating for autonomous knowledge dissemination.

A new governance model for higher education grounded in fiduciary ethics and epistemic plurality, challenging managerialism and advancing democratic knowledge institutions.

This paper extends Epistemic Clientelism Theory into intimate life, introducing the Kahl Model of Epistemic Dissonance (KMED). It shows how love, recognition, and autonomy can be modelled mathematically and simulated in Python, offering a new foundation for epistemic psychology and fiduciary ethics.

A unified theoretical framework integrating political theory, political epistemology, and Epistemic Clientelism Theory to analyse and reform the structures of epistemic power in governance, institutions, and social systems.

🧠 Reconceptualize cognitive dissonance as an epistemic event, exploring its impact on freedom, anxiety, and conformity through a philosophical lens.

Constitutional theory thesis explicitly reconceptualising media as epistemic gatekeepers, proposing fiduciary-epistemic governance to ensure democratic accountability, epistemic fairness, and public trust.

This paper reconceptualises Nazi camp guards as epistemic subjects shaped by systemic betrayal, integrating classical psychology with Kahl’s Epistemic Clientelism Theory and fiduciary–epistemic duties. It redefines atrocity as epistemic failure and authority as fiduciary trusteeship, proposing safeguards for pluralism and atrocity prevention.