Jean Bricmont
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Jean Bricmont is a Belgian theoretical physicist and philosopher of science. Professor at the Catholic University of Louvain, he works on renormalization group and nonlinear differential equations. Si
Jean Bricmont (2010)
Fashionable Nonsense
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Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science, first published in French in 1997 as Impostures intellectuelles, is a book by physicists Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont. As part of the
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…Academy of Belgium. Bricmont claims he is 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…
Cover of the first edition