Jean Bricmont is a theoretical physicist and professor at the Catholic University of Louvain. He has helped to make the political writings of Noam Chomsky known in France after years of blackout. He is the coauthor, with Alan Sokal, of
Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals » Abuse of Science.Julie Franck is assistant professor at the Laboratory of Experimental Psycholinguistics, University of Geneva. Her research concerns syntax in adults and children.
8 Ebooks par Jean Bricmont
Jean Bricmont & Julie Franck: Chomsky Notebook
Noam Chomsky applies a rational, scientific approach to disciplines as diverse as linguistics, ethics, and politics. His best-known innovations involve a groundbreaking theory of generative grammar, …
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€35.99
Jean Bricmont: Humanitarian Imperialism
Since the end of the Cold War, the idea of human rights has been made into a justification for intervention by the world’s leading economic and military powers—above all, the United States—in countri …
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€16.99
Jean Bricmont: Quantum Sense and Nonsense
Permeated by the author’s delightful humor, this little book explains, with nearly no mathematics, the main conceptual issues associated with quantum mechanics: The issue of determinism. Does q …
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€39.58
Jean Bricmont: Quantensinn und Quantenunsinn
Mit diesem Buch entwirrt Jean Bricmont die vermeintlichen Rätsel und Mysterien der Quantenmechanik und erklärt Laien die Grundprinzipien der Quantentheorie. Dabei unterstreicht er auf unterhaltsame A …
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€22.99
Jean Bricmont & Alan Sokal: Intellectual Impostures
When Intellectual Impostures was published in France, it sent shock waves through the Left Bank establishment. When it was published in Britain, it provoked impassioned debate. Sokal and Bricmont exa …
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€12.99
Jean Bricmont: Making Sense of Quantum Mechanics
This book explains, in simple terms, with a minimum of mathematics, why things can appear to be in two places at the same time, why correlations between simultaneous events occurring far apart cannot …
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€70.69
Jean Bricmont: Making Sense of Statistical Mechanics
Many people, including physicists, are confused about what the Second Law of thermodynamics really means, about how it relates to the arrow of time, and about whether it can be derived from classical …
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€71.12
Jean Bricmont: Les censeurs contre la République
Contre le climat général de dénonciations, la ‘République des censeurs’ passe en revue, en les critiquant, les arguments justifiant la censure. Aucun critère ne peut être appliqué de façon impartiale …
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€14.17