In this paper, I critically examine institutional epistemic gatekeepers—including academic platforms such as PhilPapers, JSTOR, major publishers, and academic repositories—as fiduciaries entrusted with safeguarding epistemic diversity, justice, and integrity.

Peter Kahl argues that epistemic violence in universities, journals, and academic platforms constitutes fiduciary breaches harming democratic discourse. He proposes radical fiduciary reforms for inclusive, pluralistic scholarship.

Open letter to David Chalmers and David Bourget addresses serious fiduciary governance failures, conflicts of interest, and lack of transparency at PhilPapers, calling urgently for accountability and reform to protect epistemic justice in academia.

A multimodal poetic thesis explicitly critiquing academic gatekeeping and epistemic domestication. Through poetry, multilingualism, and visual epistemology, it illustrates how traditional academic structures actively constrain knowledge into sanctioned forms.

This paper introduces ‘epistemic transposition’, reframing ethical and fiduciary duties as epistemic obligations grounded in epistemic humility. A novel contribution to virtue epistemology, fiduciary theory, and institutional accountability.