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- Title
Isolation, not locality.
- Authors
Demarest, Heather; Hicks, Michael Townsen
- Abstract
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 evidence for them and confirm them in much the same way that they do for local theories. We think these observations point to a deeper constraint on scientific theorizing and experimentation: the (quasi‐) isolation of causal or lawful influence. We argue that this requirement ought to replace the locality desideratum in science. We then explore the possibility that the order of explanation has been reversed: perhaps it is isolatable influence that determines what counts as local in the first place.
- Subjects
LAWFUL force; CRIMINAL justice system; POLICE brutality; SOCIAL theory; SCIENTIFIC method
- Publication
Philosophy & Phenomenological Research, 2021, Vol 103, Issue 3, p607
- ISSN
0031-8205
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/phpr.12731