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  1. (2 other versions)Quantum Non-Locality and Relativity: Metaphysical Implications of Modern Physics.Tim Maudlin & Michael Dickson - 1997 - Philosophy of Science 64 (3):515.
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  • Bell's Theorem and the Different Concepts of Locality.P. H. Eberhard - 1978 - Il Nuovo Cimento 46:392--419.
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  • Metaphysical Problems in the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics.Abner Shimony - 1978 - International Philosophical Quarterly 18 (1):3-17.
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  • Relativity, Quantum Mechanics and EPR.Robert Clifton, Constantine Pagonis & Itamar Pitowsky - 1992 - PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1992 (Volume One: Contributed Papers):114 - 128.
    The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen argument for the incompleteness of quantum mechanics involves two assumptions: one about locality and the other about when it is legitimate to infer the existence of an element-of-reality. Using one simple thought experiment, we argue that quantum predictions and the relativity of simultaneity require that both these assumptions fail, whether or not quantum mechanics is complete.
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  • (3 other versions)Quantum non-locality and relativity: metaphysical intimations of modern physics.Tim Maudlin - 2002 - Malden, Mass.: Blackwell.
    Modern physics was born from two great revolutions: relativity and quantum theory. Relativity imposed a locality constraint on physical theories: since nothing can go faster than light, very distant events cannot influence one another. Only in the last few decades has it become clear that quantum theory violates this constraint. The work of J. S. Bell has demonstrated that no local theory can return the predictions of quantum theory. Thus it would seem that the central pillars of modern physics are (...)
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  • On the physical significance of the locality conditions in the bell arguments.Jon P. Jarrett - 1984 - Noûs 18 (4):569-589.
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  • (1 other version)Search for a Naturalistic World View.Abner Shimony - 1997 - Synthese 110 (2):335-342.
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  • (2 other versions)Quantum Mechanics: Historical Contingency and the Copenhagen Hegemony.James T. Cushing - 1998 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 49 (2):317-328.
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  • (2 other versions)Quantum Non-Locality and Relativity: Metaphysical Intimations of Modern Physics.Tim Maudlin - 1997 - Philosophical Quarterly 47 (186):118-120.
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  • (2 other versions)Quantum Non-Locality and Relativity: Metaphysical Intimations of Modern Physics.Tim Maudlin - 1997 - Noûs 31 (4):557-568.
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  • Einstein on Locality and Separability.Don Howard - 1985 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 16 (3):171.
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  • In Defense of Dogma: Why There Cannot Be a Relativistic Quantum Mechanical Theory of (Localizable) Particles.David Malament - 1996 - In R. Clifton (ed.), Perspectives on Quantum Reality. Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 35–136.
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  • Strange Positions.Gordon Fleming & Jeremy Butterfield - 1999 - In George Fleming & Jeremy Butterfield (eds.), From Physics to Philosophy. pp. 108--165.
    The current status of localization and related concepts, especially localized statevectors and position operators, within Lorentz-invariant Quantum Theory (LIQT) is ambiguous and controversial.1 Ever since the early work of Newton & Wigner (1949), and the subsequent extensions of their work, particularly by Hegerfeldt (1974, 1985), it has seemed impossible to identify localized statevectors or position operators in LIQT that were not counterintuitive—strange—in one way or another; the most striking strange property being the superluminal propagation of the localized states. The ambiguous (...)
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  • Bell's Theorem: A Guide to the Implications.Jon P. Jarrett - 1989 - In James T. Cushing & Ernan McMullin (eds.), Philoophical Consequences of Quantum Theory. University of Notre Dame Press. pp. 60--79.
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  • Search for a Naturalistic Worldview, Volume 2: Natural Science and Metaphysics.Abner Shimony - 1993 - Cambridge University Press.
    Table of Contents: Acknowledgements; Preface; 1. Integral epistemology; 2. Reality, causality and closing the circle; 3. Search for a world view that can accommodate our knowledge of microphysics; 4. Perception from an evolutionary point of view; 5. Is observation theory-laden? A problem in naturalistic epistemology; 6. Coherence and the axioms of confirmation; 7. An adamite derivation of the principles of the calculus of probability; 8. The status of the principle of maximum entropy; 9. Scientific inference; 10. Reconsiderations on inductive logic; (...)
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  • On relativity theory and openness of the future.Howard Stein - 1991 - Philosophy of Science 58 (2):147-167.
    It has been repeatedly argued, most recently by Nicholas Maxwell, that the special theory of relativity is incompatible with the view that the future is in some degree undetermined; and Maxwell contends that this is a reason to reject that theory. In the present paper, an analysis is offered of the notion of indeterminateness (or "becoming") that is uniquely appropriate to the special theory of relativity, in the light of a set of natural conditions upon such a notion; and reasons (...)
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  • (2 other versions)Quantum Mechanics: Historical Contingency and the Copenhagen Hegemony.James T. Cushing - 1998 - Philosophical Quarterly 48 (191):250-252.
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  • Unified dynamics for microscopic and macroscopic systems.GianCarlo Ghirardi, Alberto Rimini & Tullio Weber - 1986 - Physical Review D 34 (D):470–491.
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  • (1 other version)Elements of Physical Reality, Nonlocality and Stochasticity in Relativistic Dynamical Reduction Models.GianCarlo Ghirardi & Philip Pearle - 1990 - PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1990:35 - 47.
    The problem of getting a relativistic generalization of the CSL dynamical reduction model, which has been presented in part I, is discussed. In so doing we have the opportunity to introduce the idea of a stochastically invariant theory. The theoretical model we present, that satisfies this kind of invariance requirement, offers us the possibility to reconsider, from a new point of view, some conceptually relevant issues such as nonlocality, the legitimacy of attributing elements of physical reality to physical systems and (...)
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  • (1 other version)II. Elements of Physical Reality, Nonlocality and Stochasticity in Relativistic Dynamical Reduction Models.GianCarlo Ghirardi & Philip Pearle - 1990 - PSA Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1990 (2):35-47.
    In this part we will consider recent attempts to get a relativistic CSL theory. The problem of getting such a generalization, or at least of making plausible that it exists, is of great interest. J. Bell (1990), after having expressed his dissatisfaction with the fundamental lack of precision of the standard formulation of quantum mechanics and the opinion that the only available acceptable alternatives are the Pilot Wave and the Spontaneous Localization schemes has stated: The big question, in my opinion, (...)
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  • Autobiographical Notes.Max Black, Albert Einstein & Paul Arthur Schilpp - 1949 - Journal of Symbolic Logic 15 (2):157.
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  • Events and processes in the quantum world.Abner Shimony - 1986 - In Roger Penrose & C. J. Isham (eds.), Quantum concepts in space and time. New York ;: Oxford University Press. pp. 182--203.
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  • A General Argument Against Superluminal Transmission through the Quantum Mechanical Measurement Process.G. C. Ghirardi, A. Rimini & T. Weber - 1980 - Lettere Al Nuovo Cimento 27:294--298.
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  • Holism, Separability, and the Metaphysical Implications of the Bell Experiments.Don Howard - 1989 - In James T. Cushing & Ernan McMullin (eds.), Philoophical Consequences of Quantum Theory. University of Notre Dame Press. pp. 224--253.
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  • (2 other versions)Quantum Mechanics. Historical Contingency and the Copenhagen Hegemony.James T. Cushing - 1996 - Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 27 (2):353-358.
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  • Quanten‐mechanik und wirklichkeit.A. Einstein - 1948 - Dialectica 2 (3‐4):320-324.
    ZusammenfassungFasst man die Ψ‐Funktion in der Quantenmechanik als eine vollständige Beschreibung eines realen Sachverhaltes auf, so ist die Hypothese einer schwer annehm‐baren Fernwirkung impliziert. Fasst man die Ψ‐Funktion aber als eine unvollständige Beschreibung eines realen Sachverhaltes auf, so ist es schwer zu glauben, dass für eine unvollständige Beschreibung strenge Gesetze für die zeitliche Abhängigkeit gelten.‐ A. E.
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  • Lorentz Invariant State Reduction, and Localization.Gordon N. Fleming - 1988 - PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1988:112-126.
    In this paper I will present conceptions of state reduction and particle and/or system localization which render these subjects fully compatible with the general requirements of a relativistic, i.e. Lorentz invariant, quantum theory. The approach consists of a systematic generalization of the concepts of initial data assignment at definite times, initiation and completion of measurements at definite times, and dynamical evolution as time dependence, to the concepts of initial data assignment on arbitrary space-like hyperplanes, initiation and completion of measurements on (...)
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  • Quantum Mechanics: Historical Contingency and the Copenhagen Hegemony.James T. Cushing - 1994 - University of Chicago Press.
    Why does one theory "succeed" while another, possibly clearer interpretation, fails? By exploring two observationally equivalent yet conceptually incompatible views of quantum mechanics, James T. Cushing shows how historical contingency can be crucial to determining a theory's construction and its position among competing views. Since the late 1920s, the theory formulated by Niels Bohr and his colleagues at Copenhagen has been the dominant interpretation of quantum mechanics. Yet an alternative interpretation, rooted in the work of Louis de Broglie in the (...)
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  • Hyperplane dependence in relativistic quantum mechanics.Gordon N. Fleming & Harry Bennett - 1989 - Foundations of Physics 19 (3):231-267.
    Through the explicit introduction of hyperplane dependence as a form of relativistic dynamical evolution, we construct a manifestly covariant description of a single positive energy particle interacting with any one of a large class of “moving” external potentials. In1+1 dimensions, the simplified mathematics allows us to display a number of general properties of solutions to the equations of motion for evolution on hyperplanes.
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  • Search for a Naturalistic World View: Volumes I and II by Abner Shimony. [REVIEW]Richard Healey - 1996 - Journal of Philosophy 93 (2):92-100.
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  • Strange Positions.George Fleming & Jeremy Butterfield - 1999 - In George Fleming & Jeremy Butterfield (eds.), From Physics to Philosophy.
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  • Search for a naturalistic world view.Abner Shimony - 1993 - New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
    Abner Shimony is one of the most eminent of present-day philosophers of science, whose work has exerted a profound influence in both the philosophy and physics communities. This two-volume 1993 collection of his essays written over a period of forty years explores the interrelations between science and philosophy. Shimony regards the knowing subject as an entity in nature whose faculties must be studied from the points of view of evolutionary biology and empirical psychology. He maintains that the twentieth century is (...)
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