Violation of "Measurement Independence" without Conspiracy
- Concha Martínez Vidal (dir. congr.)
- José L. Falguera López (dir. congr.)
- José M. Sagüillo (dir. congr.)
- Víctor M. Verdejo Aparicio (dir. congr.)
- Martín Pereira Fariña (dir. congr.)
Editorial: Servicio de Publicaciones e Intercambio Científico ; Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
ISBN: 978-84-9887-939-1
Any de publicació: 2012
Pàgines: 520-528
Congrés: Sociedad de Lógica, Metodología y Filosofía de la Ciencia en España. Congreso (7. 2012. Santiago de Compostela)
Tipus: Aportació congrés
Resum
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”.