Biasology is a lived-experience-led field of inquiry that names and resists the systemic ways human experience gets distorted – through diagnosis, framing, interpretation, and institutional translation. It was developed by Ian P. Pines through the Relational Co-Authorship (RCA) method and published in 2025.
Where psychology asks “what is wrong with this person,” Biasology asks “whose bias became policy?” It examines four core domains: perceptual bias, diagnostic bias, relational bias, and institutional bias – treating each not as accidental error but as structural design.
Biasology introduces its own vocabulary for the harms it names: the Diagnostic Gaze, Translation Tax, Epistemic Trauma, Help as Control, Compliance Engineering, and The Real Echo Chamber. These terms give language to experiences that existing frameworks erase or pathologize.
The field sits in direct conversation with Miranda Fricker’s concept of hermeneutical injustice – the condition in which a person’s experience cannot be made intelligible within dominant frameworks. Where Fricker named the gap, Biasology builds the language to fill it.
Biasology does not seek reform of existing systems. It builds adjacent ones – parallel archives where truth is not contingent on compliance, and where presence is not pathologized.
Biasology Resources
- Biasology Hub on Open Science Framework
- Biasology’s foundational preprint on Philpapers | on Knowledge Commons
- Biasology Isn’t a Theory. It’s a Survival Manual on Substack
