Sebastian Murgueitio Ramirez (University of Notre Dame)
Throughout this paper, I argue that in Einstein's late texts there is not one but two "principles of separability." I show that both principles are compatible with entanglement and that both are necessary in order to run the incompleteness argument. Furthermore, these principles shed new light on why 1) separability is crucial to physical thought and 2) why Einstein says that separability is required by the conventionality of physical systems. My discussion also allows us to better understand what it means to say that quantum mechanics is a non-separable theory and why the main definitions of the term "separability principle" found in the literature are inadequate.
