Title:
SUSTAINABILITY THOUGHT 170: WHAT HAPPENS TO THE THOMAS KUHN’S PARADIGM EVOLUTION LOOP UNDER WILLFUL ACADEMIC BLINDNESS? WHAT ARE THE IMPLICATIONS OF THIS?

Authors:
Lucio Muñoz*,Canada

Abstract:
Thomas Kuhn shared with the world the working of scientific revolutions, which can be simplified with six components in an evolution loop: the status quo paradigm, the abnormalities, the paradigm crisis, the possible paradigm failure and death, the academic consensus to change paradigm, and the paradigm shift. When consensus is reached, Kuhn implicitly assumes that academic integrity will ensure the actual implementation of the paradigm shift that has been agreed upon to stimulate the growth of knowledge as it is difficult to think that true scientists will join the academic consensus to change paradigm and then go later in a way i) that blocks the growth of scientific knowledge that comes from closing paradigm shift knowledge gaps, and ii) that coexist with the paradigm crisis they are trying to solve, but under willful academic blindness what in Kuhn’s loop is inconceivable actually happens. And this raises the question, what happens to the Thomas Kuhn’s paradigm evolution loop under willful academic blindness? What are the implications of this?