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Filozofija Kvantne mehanike

Ciklus predavanja

Odeljenje za filozofiju - Filozofski fakultet - Univerzitet u Beogradu



7. novembar 2013. u 15h

(Filozofsko dru?tvo Srbije, 2. medjusprat, Filozofski fakultet)



Gábor Szabó

Institute of Philosophy

Research Center for the Humanities

Hungarian Academy of Sciences



         * Locality* *and the Common Cause Principle*


  Reichenbach's Common Cause Principle claims that correlations between
causally non-related events should be traced back to a common cause which
is usually characterized probabilistically and localized spatiotemporally.
But what is the exact relation between the probabilistic characterization
and spatiotemporal localization? Intuitively, common causes should be
accommodated in the strong past, that is in the intersection of the causal
past of the correlating events, but the axiomatics of algebraic quantum
field theory, for example, seems to suggest that they should be in a
broader region: in the weak past, that is in the union of the causal pasts.
How these localizations relate to each other in the classical and in the
quantum theory, and how they relate to Bell's notion of local
causality characterized
in probabilistic terms---these are the questions the paper is addressing.




-- 
Slobodan Perovi?

*Department of Philosophy*

*University of Belgrade, Serbia*
*Web page:*   http://perovich.tripod.com/