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Discussion: Healey on the Aharonov-Bohm Effect

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2022

Tim Maudlin
Tim Maudlin*
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University
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Abstract

Richard Healey (1997) argues that the Aharonov-Bohm effect demands the recognition of either nonlocal or nonseparable physics in much the way that violations of Bell's inequality do. A careful examination of the effect and the arguments, though, shows that Healey's interpretation of the Aharonov-Bohm effect depends critically on his interpretation of gauge theories, and that the analogy with violations of Bell's inequalities fails.

Type
Research Article
Information
Philosophy of Science , Volume 65 , Issue 2 , June 1998 , pp. 361 - 368
Copyright
Copyright © Philosophy of Science Association 1998

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Footnotes

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Send requests for reprints to the author, Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University, Davison Hall, 26 Nichol Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08901–2882.

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The author would like to thank an anonymous referee for very helpful comments.

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