Comment on ‘What Bell did’

According to Maudlin, Bell showed that it is the World which is non-lcoal, and not just some particular theories of it. I argue that this conclusion is arrived at by taking for granted all assumptions of realism or ‘classicality’. If these are taken into account the resulting conclusion that ‘a classical world which allows for Bell inequality violations must be non-local’ is in good agreement with the mainstream perception of Bell's theorem(s).

This article is part of a special issue of Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical devoted to ‘50 years of Bell’s theorem’.