Dear all, The next session of the HPS Philosophy Workshop will no longer be on Wednesday 30th, in support of the strike action.
Instead, the final meeting of term will be on Thursday 1st December, at 1pm-2pm in HPS, on Free School Lane. Huw Price will give a talk entitled "Retrocausality - what would it take?". The abstract follows below. As with last week, the discussion will continue in a cafe from 2pm, for those keen to continue the debate. Best wishes, Emily Some writers argue that retrocausality offers an attractive loophole in Bell's Theorem, allowing an explanation of EPR-Bell correlations without "spooky action-at-a-distance." This idea originated more than a decade before Bell's famous result, when de Broglie's student, Olivier Costa de Beauregard, first proposed that retrocausality plays a role in EPR contexts. The proposal is difficult to assess, because there has been little work on the general question of what a world with retrocausality would "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 discuss these general issues, with the aim of bringing the more specific question as to whether quantum theory implies retrocausality into sharper focus than has hitherto been possible. _____________________________________________________ Sent by the CamPhilEvents mailing list. To unsubscribe or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents Posts are now archived here: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive
