Jean Bricmont

Jean Bricmont (French: [bʁikmɔ̃]; 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.^[2]

Jean Bricmont
Jean Bricmont (2010)
Born	(1952-04-12) 12 April 1952 (age 73) Uccle,[1] Belgium
Citizenship	Belgium
Scientific career
Fields	Physics, Philosophy of Science
Institutions	UCLouvain Rutgers University Princeton University

Bricmont claims he is a rationalist.^[3] 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.^{[4][non-primary source needed]}

Jean Bricmont was president of the Association française pour l'information scientifique from 2001 to 2006.^[5]

Books

• Impérialisme humanitaire (2005) published in English as Humanitarian Imperialism,^[6] 2006 LCCN 2006-34221 ISBN 1-58367-147-1^[7]
• 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.