Beyond Causal Explanation: Einstein’s Principle Not Reichenbach’s
Our account provides a local, realist and fully non-causal principle explanation for EPR correlations, contextuality, no-signalling, and the Tsirelson bound. Indeed, the account herein is fully consistent with the causal structure of Minkowski spacetime. We argue that retrocausal accounts of quantum...
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| description | Our account provides a local, realist and fully non-causal principle explanation for EPR correlations, contextuality, no-signalling, and the Tsirelson bound. Indeed, the account herein is fully consistent with the causal structure of Minkowski spacetime. We argue that retrocausal accounts of quantum mechanics are problematic precisely because they do not fully transcend the assumption that causal or constructive explanation must always be fundamental. Unlike retrocausal accounts, our principle explanation is a complete rejection of Reichenbach’s Principle. Furthermore, we will argue that the basis for our principle account of quantum mechanics is the physical principle sought by quantum information theorists for their reconstructions of quantum mechanics. Finally, we explain why our account is both fully realist and psi-epistemic. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4d37ee4cda8546e5ba2d3e55e5ceb15f2023-12-03T13:29:18ZengMDPI AGEntropy1099-43002021-01-0123111410.3390/e23010114Beyond Causal Explanation: Einstein’s Principle Not Reichenbach’sMichael Silberstein0William Mark Stuckey1Timothy McDevitt2Department of Philosophy, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA 17022, USADepartment of Physics, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA 17022, USADepartment of Mathematical Sciences, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA 17022, USAOur account provides a local, realist and fully non-causal principle explanation for EPR correlations, contextuality, no-signalling, and the Tsirelson bound. Indeed, the account herein is fully consistent with the causal structure of Minkowski spacetime. We argue that retrocausal accounts of quantum mechanics are problematic precisely because they do not fully transcend the assumption that causal or constructive explanation must always be fundamental. Unlike retrocausal accounts, our principle explanation is a complete rejection of Reichenbach’s Principle. Furthermore, we will argue that the basis for our principle account of quantum mechanics is the physical principle sought by quantum information theorists for their reconstructions of quantum mechanics. Finally, we explain why our account is both fully realist and psi-epistemic.https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/23/1/114EPR correlationsrelativity principleprinciple explanationReichenbach’s Principleretrocausalitylocality |
| spellingShingle | Michael Silberstein William Mark Stuckey Timothy McDevitt Beyond Causal Explanation: Einstein’s Principle Not Reichenbach’s Entropy EPR correlations relativity principle principle explanation Reichenbach’s Principle retrocausality locality |
| title | Beyond Causal Explanation: Einstein’s Principle Not Reichenbach’s |
| title_full | Beyond Causal Explanation: Einstein’s Principle Not Reichenbach’s |
| title_fullStr | Beyond Causal Explanation: Einstein’s Principle Not Reichenbach’s |
| title_full_unstemmed | Beyond Causal Explanation: Einstein’s Principle Not Reichenbach’s |
| title_short | Beyond Causal Explanation: Einstein’s Principle Not Reichenbach’s |
| title_sort | beyond causal explanation einstein s principle not reichenbach s |
| topic | EPR correlations relativity principle principle explanation Reichenbach’s Principle retrocausality locality |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/23/1/114 |
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