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.

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.

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.