Attempt to Resolve the EPR-Bell Paradox via Reichenbach's Concept of Common Cause

Reichenbach's common cause principle claims that if there is correlation betweentwo events and none of them is directly causally influenced by the other, thenthere must exist a third event that can, as a common cause, account for thecorrelation. The EPR-Bell paradox consists in the problem that we observecorrelations between spatially separated events in the EPR experiments whichdo not admit common-cause-type explanation, and it must therefore be concludedthat, contrary to relativity theory, in the realm of quantum physics there existsaction at a distance, or at least superluminal causal propagation is possible; thatis, either relativity theory or Reichenbach's common cause principle fails.By means of closer analyses of the concept of common cause and a more precisereformulation of the EPR experimental scenario, I sharpen the conclusion wecan draw from the violation of Bell's inequalities.