Constraints on Determinism: Bell Versus Conway–Kochen

@article{Cator2014ConstraintsOD,
  title={Constraints on Determinism: Bell Versus Conway–Kochen},
  author={Eric A. Cator and Klaas Landsman},
  journal={Foundations of Physics},
  year={2014},
  volume={44},
  pages={781-791}
}
Bell’s Theorem from Physics 36:1–28 (1964) and the (Strong) Free Will Theorem of Conway and Kochen from Notices AMS 56:226–232 (2009) both exclude deterministic hidden variable theories (or, in modern parlance, ‘ontological models’) that are compatible with some small fragment of quantum mechanics, admit ‘free’ settings of the archetypal Alice and Bob experiment, and satisfy a locality condition akin to parameter independence. We clarify the relationship between these theorems by giving… 
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