Kristin Andrews
Animal Cognition
Visiting International Professor
York University
Kristin Andrews holds the York research chair in Philosophy of Animal Minds at the York University (CA) and was elected to the College of the Royal Society of Canada in 2015. She works on issues such as belief and social understanding, the evolution of morality, methodology in animal cognition research, and animal rights. Andrews’s books include Do Apes Read Minds? Toward a New Folk Psychology (MIT Press, 2012)-a defense of her normative and pluralistic theory of folk psychology; The Animal Mind (Routledge, 2015)– a survey of how empirical work on animal minds can help to inform debates in the philosophy of mind; and, written with a team of 15 philosophers, Chimpanzee Rights: The Philosophers Brief (Routledge, 2018) as well as The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Animal Minds (co-edited with Jacob Beck, Routledge 2018).
Andrews has published her work in journals including The Journal of the American Philosophical Association, Mind and Language, Synthese, Biology and Philosophy, and Southern Journal of Philosophy. Her scientific research on orangutan pantomime communication is published in Biology Letters and Communicative and Integrative Biology. Andrews is co-founder with Lori Gruen and Colin Allen of the Society for Philosophy of Animal Minds (sPAM). In addition to her academic duties, she serves as a member of the Executive Board for The Borneo Orangutan Society Canada, which has the mission to educate the public and promote conservation of orangutans and their habitat.
Representative papers for further reading:
Andrews, K., Fitzpatrick, S., & Westra, E. (2024). Human and nonhuman norms: a dimensional framework. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 379(1897), 20230026. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2023.0026
LeDoux, J., Birch, J., Andrews, K., Clayton, N. S., Daw, N. D., Frith, C., … & Vandekerckhove, M. M. (2023). Consciousness beyond the human case. Current Biology, 33(16), R832-R840. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.06.067
Andrews, K. (2020). Naïve normativity: The social foundation of moral cognition. Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 6(1), 36-56. https://doi.org/10.1017/apa.2019.30