Overview
- Provides a formally rigorous and conceptually precise analysis of Bell’s notion of local causality
- Develops a framework, called local physical theory, which is necessary for the definition of local causality
- Relates local causality to other important concepts and principles such as the Common Cause Principle, EPR (Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen) scenario, Bell’s inequalities, and the Causal Markov Condition
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book summarizes the results of research the authors have pursued in the past years on the problem of implementing Bell's notion of local causality in local physical theories and relating it to other important concepts and principles in the foundations of physics such as the Common Cause Principle, Bell's inequalities, the EPR (Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen) scenario, and various other locality and causality concepts. The book is intended for philosophers of science with an interest in the formal background of sciences, philosophers of physics and physicists working in foundation of physics.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Gábor Hofer-Szabó is a senior research fellow at the Institute of Philosophy, Research Center for the Humanities at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest. His main fields of research are foundations of quantum mechanics, interpretations of probability and probabilistic causality.
Péter Vecsernyés is a senior research fellow at the Wigner Research Centre for Physics at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest. His main fields of research are algebraic quantum field theory and quantum groups.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Quantum Theory and Local Causality
Authors: Gábor Hofer-Szabó, Péter Vecsernyés
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Philosophy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73933-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-73932-8Published: 02 March 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-73933-5Published: 20 February 2018
Series ISSN: 2211-4548
Series E-ISSN: 2211-4556
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 59
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations
Topics: History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics, Mathematical Physics, Philosophy of Science