🧠 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.

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.

This paper reframes the newborn’s first cry as the primordial epistemic claim—the embodied registration of contradiction and dependence at life’s threshold. Drawing on developmental research, attachment theory, and KMED-I simulations, it shows how caregiver responses form fiduciary scaffolds shaping autonomy, resilience, and trust.

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.

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 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.

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).

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.

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.

A theoretical and clinical account of epistemic trauma—developmental injury arising from recognition deprivation, suppression dynamics, and failures of containment within family systems. Introduces diagnostic criteria, differential diagnosis, the EIC tool, and an intervention framework for epistemic repair.

Epistemic Psychology re-founds psychology as the science of human autonomy and dependence under epistemic conditions. Moving from pathology to ontology, and from description to prescription, it integrates dissonance, clientelism, and fiduciary scaffolds into a diagnostic and normative research programme.