The Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum Coetibus: An Anglican Juridical Perspective

(An Analysis of Principle no.8 of the Constitution)

This article has analyzed principle no.8 of the Constitution from three aspects: 1-verbal analysis 2-conceptual analysis 3-ways to execute this principle. In first section a precise definition of "call to good", "good and evil" (both in law and in jurisprudence) and "government" have been presented. In second section to have a better understanding of principle no.8, issues such as the relation ...

The Cultural Constitution of Cognition: Taking the Anthropological Perspective

To what extent is cognition affected by culture? And how might cognitive science profit from an intensified collaboration with anthropology in exploring this issue? In order to answer these questions, we will first give a brief description of different perspectives on cognition, one that prevails in most cognitive sciences - particularly in cognitive psychology - and one in anthropology. Three ...

Probabilistic Programming in Anglican

Anglican is a probabilistic programming system designed to interoperate with Clojure and other JVM languages. We describe the implementation of Anglican and illustrate how its design facilitates both explorative and industrial use of probabilistic programming.

Three Years of Animal Welfare in the German Constitution – the Balance from an Animal Welfare Perspective

The inclusion of animal welfare into the German Constitution in 2002 gained worldwide attention. Animal welfare organisations had been striving to reach this goal for more than a decade, and they had good reasons to do so: in several court cases the regulations of the German Animal Welfare Act had been overruled by basic rights laid down in the Constitution, such as the freedom of research and ...

Response to Consultation Paper, Towards an Anglican Covenant (TAC)