Boës , Paul (2013) Is Howard's separability principle a sufficient condition for outcome independence? In: UNSPECIFIED.

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In order to motivate his claim that the violation of the Bell inequalities forces us into a certain kind of holism, Howard (1985,1989,1992) develops a formal equivalence proof supposed to ground the stochastic “outcome independence” condition, the assumption of which is necessary for the derivation of the inequalities, in a physical principle, the separability principle. I will discuss several criticisms of Howard's equivalence proof that focus on the sufficiency of the separability principle for outcome independence. I will argue that, while none of these criticisms succeeds, they do constrain the possible form of Howard's argument.

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Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (UNSPECIFIED)
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Boës , Paul paul.boes.10@ucl.ac.uk
Keywords:	Bell inequalities, Howard, separability
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics General Issues > Reductionism/Holism
Depositing User:	Mr. Paul Boes
Date Deposited:	03 Aug 2013 08:15
Last Modified:	03 Aug 2013 08:15
Item ID:	9910
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics General Issues > Reductionism/Holism
Date:	2013
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/9910

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