Suárez, Mauricio and San Pedro, Iñaki (2007) EPR robustness and the causal Markov condition. LSE philosophy papers (PP/04/07). Centre of Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, London, UK.
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It is still a matter of controversy whether the Principle of the Common Cause (PCC) can be used as a basis for sound causal inference. It is thus to be expected that its application to quantum mechanics should be a correspondingly controversial issue. Indeed the early 90’s saw a flurry of papers addressing just this issue in connection with the EPR correlations. Yet, that debate does not seem to have caught up with the most recent literature on causal inference generally, which has moved on to consider the virtues of a generalised PCC inspired condition, the so called Causal Markov Condition (CMC). In this paper we argue that the CMC is an appropriate benchmark for debating possible causal explanations of the EPR correlations. But we go on to take issue with some pronouncements on EPR by defenders of the CMC.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Report) |
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| Official URL: | http://www2.lse.ac.uk/CPNSS/CPNSS-DPS/LSEPhilosopy... |
| Additional Information: | © 2007 The Authors |
| Divisions: | CPNSS |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) Q Science > QC Physics |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Mar 2011 10:32 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Sep 2024 16:35 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/33292 |
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