Hans Reichenbach
(1891-1953)
Hans Reichenbach was a philosopher of science who founded the Society for Empirical Philosophy) in Berlin in 1928, also known as the "Berlin Circle". Carl Gustav Hempel, Richard von Mises, and
David Hilbert became members of the Berlin Circle.
Reichenbach and Rudolf Carnap became editors of the journal Erkenntnis. He also made lasting contributions to the study of empiricism based on a theory of probability; the logic and the philosophy of mathematics; space, time, and relativity theory; analysis of probabilistic reasoning; and quantum mechanics
In his most famous book on the direction of time, Reichenbach defined the idea of a
common cause.
If an improbable coincidence has occurred, then there must have been a common cause.
Reichenbach, H. (1991). The Direction of Time. U. California Press. p.157
If events at A and B are perfectly correlated, then either A causes B, B causes A, or there is a common cause C coming to both A and B, as we use to explain
quantum entanglement.
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