Causal Independence in EPR Arguments

PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1990:213 - 225 (1990)
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I show that locality, as it occurs in EPR arguments for the incompleteness of quantum mechanics, can be construed as causal independence understood in terms of Lewis' counterfactual analysis of causation. This construal has two benefits. It supplements recent analyses, which have not treated locality in detail. And it clarifies the relation between two EPR arguments that have recently been distinguished. It shows that the simpler of the two is more complex than has been thought; and that the other argument does not need 'counterfactual definiteness'.

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