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In the paper it will be argued that embracing noncommuting common causes in the causal explanation of quantum correlations in algebraic quantum field theory has the following two beneficial consequences: it helps (i) to maintain the validity of Reichenbach’s Common Causal Principle and (ii) to provide a local common causal explanation for a set of correlations violating the Bell inequality.
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Hofer-Szabó, G. (2014). Noncommutative Causality in Algebraic Quantum Field Theory. In: Galavotti, M., Dieks, D., Gonzalez, W., Hartmann, S., Uebel, T., Weber, M. (eds) New Directions in the Philosophy of Science. The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective, vol 5. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04382-1_38
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