Violation of "Measurement Independence" without Conspiracy

  1. Iñaki San Pedro
Libro:
VII Conference of the Spanish Society for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science: Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18-20 July 2012
  1. Concha Martínez Vidal (dir. congr.)
  2. José L. Falguera López (dir. congr.)
  3. José M. Sagüillo (dir. congr.)
  4. Víctor M. Verdejo Aparicio (dir. congr.)
  5. Martín Pereira Fariña (dir. congr.)

Editorial: Servicio de Publicaciones e Intercambio Científico ; Universidad de Santiago de Compostela

ISBN: 978-84-9887-939-1

Año de publicación: 2012

Páginas: 520-528

Congreso: Sociedad de Lógica, Metodología y Filosofía de la Ciencia en España. Congreso (7. 2012. Santiago de Compostela)

Tipo: Aportación congreso

Resumen

The aim of this paper is to show that “Measurement Independence”-type conditions are not sensible assumptions to require in the context of common cause explanations of the EPR correlations, and must thus be disposed of. I will argue, on the one hand, that “Measurement Independence” does not adequately express the requirement that EPR experimenters have free will, as it is usually claimed. On the other hand, I will suggest that actual measurement operations play a crucial causal role in any common cause account of EPR one may think of. This that such causal explanations of EPR of course means violate “Measurement Independence”.