Providing a precise statement of their position has long been a central challenge facing the scientific realist. This paper draws some morals about how realism ought to be formulated from the renormalization group framework in high energy physics.

objective: parents are believed to be among the most influential adults who have a deterministic role in the success of interventional programs on adolescents' reproductive health. the aim of this study is to describe parents' perceptions and attitudes towards adolescent reproductive needs, experiences and associated factors. method: a population-based study of 539 parents of adolescent boys, a...

Building on the moral economy of Andrew Sayer and Dave Elder-Vass, this article advocates for a functional (not functionalist) approach to morals ethics, consequently economics. By choosing words responsibly it aims be an example conscientious attitude advocates. In first section, I find that Sayer's dovetails with Pierre Macherey´s – notably due Sayer´s linking biological dependency vulnerabil...

We study the impact of competition on morals using a dynamic variant die-under-the-cup task. Players can repeatedly misreport outputs consecutive die rolls to earn more money, either under an individual piece-rate pay scheme or in two-player tournament. In this setting, we disentangle effect incentive and information provision about one’s relative performance, by comparing settings with continu...