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SUMMARY:Retrocausality – what would it take? - Huw Price (Faculty of Phi
 losophy)
DTSTART:20111201T130000Z
DTEND:20111201T140000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Some writers argue that retrocausality offers an attractive lo
 ophole in Bell's Theorem\, allowing an explanation of EPR-Bell correlation
 s without 'spooky action-at-a-distance'. This idea originated more than\na
  decade before Bell's famous result\, when de Broglie's student\, Olivier 
 Costa de Beauregard\, first proposed that retrocausality plays a role in E
 PR contexts. The proposal is difficult to assess\, because\nthere has been
  little work on the general question of what a world with retrocausality w
 ould 'look like' - what kinds of considerations\, if any\, would properly 
 lead to the conclusion that we do live in such a world. In this talk I dis
 cuss these general issues\, with the aim of bringing the more specific que
 stion as to whether quantum theory implies retrocausality into sharper foc
 us than has hitherto been possible.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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