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The Scope and Generality of Bell's Theorem

Weatherall, James Owen (2013) The Scope and Generality of Bell's Theorem. [Preprint]

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    Abstract

    I present what might seem to be a local, deterministic model of the EPR-Bohm experiment, inspired by recent work by Joy Christian, that appears at first blush to be in tension with Bell-type theorems. I argue that the model ultimately fails to do what a hidden variable theory needs to do, but that it is interesting nonetheless because the way it fails helps clarify the scope and generality of Bell-type theorems. I formulate and prove a minor proposition that makes explicit how Bell-type theorems rule out models of the sort I describe here.

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    Item Type: Preprint
    Additional Information: Forthcoming in Foundations of Physics
    Keywords: Bell's theorem; Hidden variable theory; Joy Christian
    Subjects: Specific Sciences > Physics
    Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics
    Depositing User: James Owen Weatherall
    Date Deposited: 26 Jul 2013 02:44
    Last Modified: 26 Jul 2013 02:44
    Item ID: 9902
    URI: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/9902

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