AP-021: Open Problems in Epistemic Engineering — A Research Agenda for the Design, Comparison, and Validation of Epistemic Governance Systems

This paper defines Epistemic Engineering as a field of inquiry and proposes its foundational research agenda. Epistemic Engineering is the design, implementation, comparison, and experimental validation of procedures that assign epistemic status to claims. We identify ten open problem families spanning constitutional specification, metrological frameworks, expressivity–verifiability trade-offs, negative-result infrastructure, constitutional evolution, bias measurement, deliberation topology, portability, ablation methodology, and calibration. The agenda is offered as an act of intellectual hospitality: adoption of any particular system or constitution is not required, only the shared commitment to treating epistemic governance as an experimentally manipulable object.