Physics and causation

DOI10.1007/S10701-009-9357-YzbMATH Open1215.81007OpenAlexW2116028465MaRDI QIDQ535624FDOQ535624

Authors: Michael Esfeld 

Publication date: 13 May 2011

Published in: Foundations of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/4927/1/FoP-Mittelstaedt.pdf

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zbMATH Keywords

entanglementquantum mechanicsmeasurement problemGRWdirection of timeEverettdispositionscausal propertiesclassical propertiesmetaphysics of sciencemetrical fieldphysical structurespropensitiesspontaneous localizationsstate reductions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40)

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Cited In (6)

• Causation and Its Relation to ‘Causal Laws’
• On the argument from physics and general relativity
• The need for pluralism of causality
• No place for causes? Causal skepticism in physics
• Causality in the natural sciences
• A brief note on analyticity and causality, and the ``levels of physics

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