Violation of "Measurement Independence" without Conspiracy

• Autores: Iñaki San Pedro
• Localización: VII Conference of the Spanish Society for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science: Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18-20 July 2012 / Sociedad de Lógica, Metodología y Filosofía de la Ciencia en España (aut.), Concepción Martínez Vidal (dir. congr.), José L. Falguera López (dir. congr.), José Miguel Sagüillo Fernández-Vega (dir. congr.), Víctor Martín Verdejo Aparicio (dir. congr.), Martín Pereira Fariña (dir. congr.), 2012, ISBN 978-84-9887-939-1, págs. 520-528
• Idioma: inglés
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  • 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”.