Isolation, not locality.
There is a long tradition of preferring local theories to ones that posit lawful or causal influence at a spacetime distance. In this paper, we argue against this preference. We argue that nonlocality is scientifically unobjectionable and that nonlocal theories can be known. Scientists can gather ev...
| Publicado en: | Philosophy & Phenomenological Research Vol. 103; no. 3; pp. 607 - 620 |
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