Jean Bricmont
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Jean Bricmont (Script error: No such module "IPA".; born 12 April 1952) is a Belgian theoretical physicist and philosopher of science. Professor at the Catholic University of Louvain (UCLouvain), he works on renormalization group and nonlinear differential equations. Since 2004, Bricmont is a member of the Division of Sciences of the Royal Academy of Belgium.[1]
Bricmont claims he is a rationalist.[2] He has criticized postmodernist views of science along with Alan Sokal, with whom he wrote Fashionable Nonsense (1997). He has also criticized imperialism and defended freedom of expression, adopting a position on the issue similar to that of Noam Chomsky.[3]Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Jean Bricmont was president of the Association française pour l'information scientifique from 2001 to 2006.[4]
Books
- Impérialisme humanitaire (2005) published in English as Humanitarian Imperialism,[5] 2006 Template:LCCN Template:Isbn[6]
- Preface to L'Atlas alternatif – Frédéric Delorca (ed), Pantin, Temps des Cerises, 2006
- Raison contre pouvoir. Le Pari de Pascal Jean Bricmont and Noam Chomsky, 5 November 2009
- La République des censeurs, L'Herne. 2014. Template:ISBN.
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References
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External links
- Profile at Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain)
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- Prof. Jean Bricmont (archived version, before retirement)
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- 1952 births
- Living people
- Belgian physicists
- Université catholique de Louvain alumni
- Academic staff of the Université catholique de Louvain
- Critics of postmodernism
- Philosophers of science
- 21st-century Belgian philosophers
- Continental philosophers
- Members of the Royal Academy of Belgium
- Free speech activists