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A Note on Nonlocality, Causation, and Lorentz Invariance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2022

Federico Laudisa
Federico Laudisa*
Affiliation:
University of Florence
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†Dipartimento di Filosofia, Università di Firenze, Via Bolognese 52, 50139 Firenze, Italy; e-mail: [email protected].
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Abstract

The status of a causal approach to EPR-Bell nonlocal correlations in terms of a counterfactual framework for causation is considered. It is argued that when the relativistic spacetime structure of the events is taken into due account, the adoption of this approach is best motivated by the assumption of a preferred frame of reference, an assumption that seems even more in need of justification than the causal theory itself.

Type
Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
Information
Philosophy of Science , Volume 66 , Issue S3: Supplement. Proceedings of the 1998 Biennial Meetings of the Philosophy of Science Association. Part I: Contributed Papers Sep., 1999 , 1999 , pp. S72 - S81
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Copyright © 1999 by the Philosophy of Science Association

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Footnotes

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I wish to thank Mauro Dorato and Erik Curiel for useful remarks on an earlier draft of the present paper.

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