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Must the Microcausality Condition Be Interpreted Causally? Beyond Reduction and Matters of Fact

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Theoria 15(37) : 59-85 (2000)
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The 'microcausality' condition in quantum field theory is typically resented and justified on the basis of general principles of physical causality. I explore in detail a number of alternative causal interpretations of this condition. I conclude that none is fully satisfactory, independent of further and controversial assumptions about the object and scope of quantum field theories. In particular the stronger causal readings require a fully reductionist and fundamentalist attitude to quantum field theory. I argue, in a deflationary spirit, for a reading of the 'microcausality' condition as mere boundary condition, inspired by Relativity, that different possible formulations of quantum field theory must obey
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