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Einstein and EPR

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2022

Robert Deltete  and
Reed Guy
Robert Deltete*
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy Seattle University
Reed Guy
Affiliation:
Department of Physics Seattle University
*
†Send reprint requests to the authors, Department of Philosophy, Seattle University, Seattle, WA 98122.
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Abstract

Recent studies have shown that Einstein did not write the EPR paper and that he was disappointed with the outcome. He thought, rightly, that his own argument for the incompleteness of quantum theory was badly presented in the paper. We reconstruct the argument of EPR, indicate the reasons Einstein was dissatisfied with it, and discuss Einstein's own argument. We show that many commentators have been misled by the obscurity of EPR into proposing interpretations of its argument that do not accurately represent Einstein's own views. Finally, we evaluate Einstein's own incompleteness argument, concluding that recent experimental findings have likely shown it to be unsound.

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Research Article
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 58 , Issue 3 , September 1991 , pp. 377 - 397
Copyright
Copyright © 1991 The Philosophy of Science Association

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