Should we Explain the EPR Correlations Causally?
- 1 March 1992
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Philosophy of Science
- Vol. 59 (1) , 16-25
- https://doi.org/10.1086/289651
Abstract
Using three intuitive notions about causes, including Redhead's robustness condition, I formulate necessary conditions on partial causes. I then demonstrate that we cannot explain the EPR correlations in terms of partial causes unless we abandon the quantum mechanical framework and adopt a nonlocal hidden-variable theory. The argument, unlike its predecessors, does not appeal to relativity theory.Keywords
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