The data from the research suggest that an effective workforce does not depend on any one factor in isolation. People are attracted to the public library service because the work is seen as having a public service ethos and providing opportunities to work with the public and communities. However the overall picture is that the negative image of the profession has some basis in reality. The rese...

Abstract In this chapter I analyze how the ideals of Finnish welfare state are experienced in 2020s by people who live weak social and economic situations. Charitable food aid public services often seen to epitomize unreconciled charitable ethos versus universalism. This voices grassroots experiences use from both service institutions. By exploring people’s everyday encounters with these servic...

Olgular kadar idealler de siyaset felsefesinin kapsamındadır. Reelpolitik teoriler, siyasi gerçekliği empirik değerlendirmeyle anlaşılır kılmaya çalışırken idealist normatif değerlendirmeyi kullanır. Yaygın tutum, bu iki tavırdan birini diğerine dışlayıcı biçimde tercih etmektir. Başka bir deyimle, reelpolitik teoriler değerlendirmeden, ise bakış açısının pozitivist sonuçlarından uzak kalmayı e...

Bioethics is dominated by an emphasis on rule making and quandary solving. Teaching and research in ethics often focuses upon dramatic, controversial issues at the margins of life and death. Much less attention is given to the relationship between moral reflection and the ethos of place. Medical facilities, however, are moral worlds. To discuss the ethos of place is to focus on the character or...

Abstract This essay examines what AI can dofor government, specifically through three generic tools at the heart of governance: detection, prediction, and data-driven decision-making. Public sector functions, such as resource allocation protection rights, are more normatively loaded than those firms, poses greater ethical challenges earlier generations digital technology, threatening transparen...