Jean Bricmont
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Jean Bricmont ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}; 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.<ref>Jean Bricmont Template:Webarchive page on Royal Academy of Belgium website.</ref>
Bricmont claims he is a rationalist.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>Template:Primary source inline
Jean Bricmont was president of the Association française pour l'information scientifique from 2001 to 2006.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Books
- Impérialisme humanitaire (2005) published in English as Humanitarian Imperialism,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> 2006 Template:LCCN Template:Isbn<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- 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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External links
- Profile at Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain)
- Emeritus Professor Jean Bricmont
- Prof. Jean Bricmont (archived version, before retirement)
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