Hofer-Szabó, Gábor and Vecsernyés, Péter (2014) Bell's local causality for philosophers. In: UNSPECIFIED.

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This paper is the philosopher-friendly version of our more technical work (Hofer-Szabó and Vecsernyés, 2014). It aims to give a clear-cut definition of Bell's notion of local causality. Having provided a framework, called local physical theory, which integrates probabilistic and spatiotemporal concepts, we formulate the notion of local causality and relate it to other locality and causality concepts. Then we compare Bell's local causality with Reichenbach's Common Cause Principle and relate both to the Bell inequalities. We find a nice parallelism: both local causality and the Common Cause Principle are more general notions than captured by the Bell inequalities. Namely, Bell inequalities cannot be derived neither from local causality nor from a common cause unless the local physical theory is classical or the common cause is commuting, respectively.

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Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (UNSPECIFIED)
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Hofer-Szabó, Gábor gsz@szig.hu Vecsernyés, Péter vecsernyes.peter@wigner.mta.hu
Keywords:	local causality, Bell inequality, common cause
Subjects:	General Issues > Causation Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Field Theory Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics
Depositing User:	Gabor Hofer-Szabo
Date Deposited:	27 Jun 2014 21:51
Last Modified:	27 Jun 2014 21:51
Item ID:	10795
Subjects:	General Issues > Causation Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Field Theory Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics
Date:	2014
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/10795

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