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AGPhil: Arbeitsgruppe Philosophie der Physik
AGPhil 8: Foundations of Quantum Mechanics: Bohm and Hidden Variables
AGPhil 8.3: Vortrag
Donnerstag, 13. März 2025, 12:00–12:30, HS XVII
Superluminal Causation in Quantum Mechanics — •Mario Hubert1 and Frederick Eberhardt2 — 1LMU Munich — 2Caltech
We want to make precise how superluminal causation can work in quantum mechanics. First, we argue, pace Egg and Esfeld (2014), that instantaneous causation can be interpreted to have a causal direction. Second, we show by assuming a counterfactual theory of causation that these instantaneous causal directions are instantiated in the de Broglie-Bohm theory for space-like separated entangled particles. Third, we argue that these instantaneous causal relations are fine-tuned in the sense of causal modeling (that is, violating faithfulness) but not in the sense of physics (relying on special initial conditions).
References: Egg, M. and Esfeld, M. (2014). Non-local common cause explanations for EPR. European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 4(2):181-196.
Keywords: causation; quantum mechanics; de Broglie-Bohm theory; causal model