Non‐Locality in Classical Electrodynamics

British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 53 (1):1-19 (2002)
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in Dirac's classical theory of the electron—is causally non-local. I distinguish two distinct causal locality principles and argue, using Dirac's theory as my main case study, that neither can be reduced to a non-causal principle of local determinism.

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Mathias Frisch
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Understanding electromagnetism.Gordon Belot - 1998 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 49 (4):531-555.

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