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, He is a member of the Division of Sciences of the Royal Academy of Belgium.[2]
Bricmont is a rationalist activist. 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][non-primary source needed]
Jean Bricmont was president of the Association française pour l'information scientifique from 2001 to 2006.[4]
^Académie royale de Belgique
^Jean Bricmont Archived 12 October 2017 at the Wayback Machine page on Royal Academy of Belgium website.
^Bricmont, Jean (1 April 2001). "La mauvaise réputation de Noam Chomsky". Le Monde diplomatique (in French). Retrieved 11 August 2020.
^"Qui sommes-nous ? / Afis Science - Association française pour l'information scientifique".
JeanBricmont (French: [bʁikmɔ̃]; born 12 April 1952) is a Belgian theoretical physicist and philosopher of science. Professor at the Catholic University...
Sokal, Allan and JeanBricmont. "Que se passe-t-il ?" Libération 18–19 October 1997. pp. 5–6. Sokal & Bricmont (1997, p. 17) Sokal & Bricmont (1998b, p. 8)...
is a book by physicists Alan Sokal and JeanBricmont. As part of the so-called science wars, Sokal and Bricmont criticize postmodernism in academia for...
mainstream press. Scientific realists (such as Norman Levitt, Paul R. Gross, JeanBricmont and Alan Sokal) accused many writers, whom they described as 'postmodernist'...
(and other postmodernists) criticized by physicists Alan Sokal and JeanBricmont in 1997 for what they characterize as misunderstanding and misuse of...
Bricmont is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: JeanBricmont (born 1952), Belgian theoretical physicist, philosopher of science, and...
vein, Richard Dawkins writes in a favorable review of Alan Sokal and JeanBricmont's Intellectual Impostures: Suppose you are an intellectual impostor with...
effectively destroyed all of science. The physicists Alan Sokal and JeanBricmont argued that critiques of Popper's work have provoked an "irrationalist...
Impostures intellectuelles (1997), physics professors Alan Sokal and JeanBricmont devote a chapter to Kristeva's use of mathematics in her writings. They...
interest in networked cultures and new media". Physicists Alan Sokal and JeanBricmont have criticized Debray's work for using Gödel's theorem as a metaphor...
resolutely "non-totalizing" mode of thought. The physicists Alan Sokal and JeanBricmont write in Fashionable Nonsense (1997) that The Logic of Sense prefigures...
Impostures Intellectuelles with physicist and philosopher of science JeanBricmont (published in English, a year later, as Fashionable Nonsense). The book...
in the UK as Intellectual Impostures) the physicists Alan Sokal and JeanBricmont criticised falsifiability. They include this critique in the "Intermezzo"...
negativity. In Fashionable Nonsense (1997), physicists Alan Sokal and JeanBricmont accuse Deleuze of abusing mathematical and scientific terms, particularly...
enduring, and individualized". In 1997, the physicists Alan Sokal and JeanBricmont asserted that the book contains many passages in which Deleuze and Guattari...
Gross and Norman Levitt and Intellectual Impostures by Alan Sokal and JeanBricmont. These books are famous for their criticism of postmodernism in U.S...
original on December 29, 2022. Retrieved December 29, 2022. Sokal, Alan; JeanBricmont (1998). Fashionable Nonsense. New York: Picador. ISBN 978-0-312-19545-8...
positively on several socialist thinkers and activists. According to JeanBricmont and Normand Baillargeon, "Russell was both a liberal and a socialist...
editors' ideological preconceptions." In 1999, Sokal, with coauthor JeanBricmont published the book Fashionable Nonsense, which criticized postmodernism...
Free Speech and the Internet. United Kingdom, Taylor & Francis, 2023. JeanBricmont (2014), La république des censeurs, L'Herne, 176p. Freedom of speech...
Badiou's use of mathematics. Mathematician Alan Sokal and physicist JeanBricmont write that Badiou proposes, with seemingly "utter seriousness," a blending...
from the original on February 14, 2022. Retrieved July 12, 2019. Birnbaum, Jean (June 3, 2010). "Chomsky à Paris: chronique d'un malentendu". Le Monde des...
Noam (2010). "1. The Mysteries of Nature: How Deeply Hidden?". In JeanBricmont; Julie Franck (eds.). Chomsky Notebook. ISBN 978-0-231-14475-9. Csikszent...
originally sought to overcome. In Fashionable Nonsense, Alan Sokal and JeanBricmont criticized Irigaray's use of hard-science terminology in her writings...
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