Jean Bricmont

Jean Bricmont (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.

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.

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 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.