Local Acausality

• DOI: 10.1007/s10701-014-9796-y
• Publication Date: 2014-05-05T20:51:34Z
• Authors: Adrian Wüthrich
• Keywords: Causality; Principle of locality

The final publication is available at link.springer.com: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10701-014-9796-y<br/>A fair amount of recent scholarship has been concerned with correcting a supposedly wrong, but wide-spread, assessment of the consequences of the empirical falsification of Bell-type inequalities. In particular, it has been claimed that Bell-type inequalities follow from "locality tout court" without additional assumptions such as "realism" or "hidden variables". However, this line of reasoning conflates restrictions on the spatio-temporal relation between causes and their effects ("locality") and the assumption of a cause for every event ("causality"). It thus fails to recognize a substantial restriction of the class of theories that is falsified through Bell-type inequalities.<br/>