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Jean Bricmont

Belgian physicist and essayist (born 1952)

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Bricmont describes himself as a rationalist. 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.

Jean Bricmont was president of the Association française pour l'information scientifique from 2001 to 2006.

Books

  • Impérialisme humanitaire (2005) published in English as Humanitarian Imperialism, 2006 LCCN 2006-34221 ISBN 1-58367-147-1
  • 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. ISBN 978-2851974570.
  • Bricmont, Jean (2016). Making Sense of Quantum Mechanics. Springer. ISBN 978-3319258898. LCCN 2019757770.
  • Bricmont, Jean (2017). Quantum Sense and Nonsense. Springer. ISBN 978-3319652719. LCCN 2019744992.

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