Title
Beyond causal explanation: Einstein’s principle not reichenbach’s
Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Entropy
Publication Date
1-1-2021
Abstract
Our account provides a local, realist and fully non-causal principle explanation for EPR correlations, contextuality, no-signalling, and the Tsirelson bound. Indeed, the account herein is fully consistent with the causal structure of Minkowski spacetime. We argue that retrocausal accounts of quantum mechanics are problematic precisely because they do not fully transcend the assumption that causal or constructive explanation must always be fundamental. Unlike retrocausal accounts, our principle explanation is a complete rejection of Reichenbach’s Principle. Furthermore, we will argue that the basis for our principle account of quantum mechanics is the physical principle sought by quantum information theorists for their reconstructions of quantum mechanics. Finally, we explain why our account is both fully realist and psi-epistemic.
Volume
23
Issue
1
First Page
1
Last Page
29
DOI
10.3390/e23010114
E-ISSN
10994300
Recommended Citation
Silberstein, Michael; Stuckey, William Mark; and McDevitt, Timothy, "Beyond causal explanation: Einstein’s principle not reichenbach’s" (2021). Faculty Publications. 829.
https://jayscholar.etown.edu/facpubharvest/829
