Kristin Andrews
Biographic Data
| ID | 3873358 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kristin Andrews |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kristin |
| FAMILY NAME | Andrews |
| SIGNATURE | ANDREWS K |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3482-0173 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Rule-ish Patterns in the Psychology of Norms
“All animals are conscious”
The marker approach is taken as best practice for answering the distribution question : Which animals are conscious? However, the methodology can be used to increase confidence in animals many presume to be unconscious, including C. elegans , leading to a trilemma: accept the worms as conscious; reject the specific markers; or reject the marker methodology for answering the distribution question. I defend the third option and argue that answering…
How Not to Find Over-Imitation in Animals
While more species are being identified as cultural on a regular basis, stark differences between human and animal cultures remain. Humans are more richly cultural, with group-specific practices and social norms guiding almost every element of our lives. Furthermore, human culture is seen as cumulative, cooperative, and normative, in contrast to animal cultures. One hypothesis to explain these differences is grounded in the observation that human…
Animal Culture and Animal Welfare
Following recent arguments that cultural practices in wild animal populations have important conservation implications, we argue that recognizing captive animals as cultural has important welfare implications. Having a culture is of deep importance for cultural animals, wherever they live. Without understanding the cultural capacities of captive animals, we will be left with a deeply impoverished view of what they need to flourish. Best practices…
If Skill is Normative, Then Norms are Everywhere
Birch sketches out an ingenious account of how the psychology of social norms emerged from individual-level norms of skill. We suggest that these individual-level norms of skill are likely to be much more widespread than Birch suggests, extending deeper into the hominid lineage, across modern great ape species, all the way to distantly related creatures like honeybees. This suggests that there would have been multiple opportunities for social nor…
Introduction to Folk Psychology
Naïve Normativity
To answer tantalizing questions such as whether animals are moral or how morality evolved, I propose starting with a somewhat less fraught question: do animals have normative cognition? Recent psychological research suggests that normative thinking, or ought-thought, begins early in human development. Recent philosophical research suggests that folk psychology is grounded in normative thought. Recent primatology research finds evidence of sophist…
Chimpanzee Rights
Since 2013, an organization called the Nonhuman Rights Project has brought before the New York State courts an unusual request—asking for habeas corpus hearings to determine whether Kiko and Tommy, two captive chimpanzees, should be considered legal persons with the fundamental right to bodily liberty. While the courts have agreed that chimpanzees share emotional, behavioural, and cognitive similarities with humans, they have denied that chimpanz…
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Animal Minds
The insight gained from Ruth Millikan leads us to investigate animal communication not by considering Gricean communicative intentions, but instead by considering feature of intentional communication, namely the flexible interaction between the participants of the communicative situation. Whether nonhuman primates communicate intentionally, that is, whether they rely on intentions, such as goals and beliefs about goals and knowledge states of the…
Chimpanzee mind reading
Since the question "Do chimpanzees have a theory of mind?" was raised in 1978, scientists have attempted to answer it, and philosophers have attempted to clarify what the question means and whether it has been, or could be, answered. Mindreading (a term used mostly by philosophers) or theory of mind (a term preferred by scientists) refers to the ability to attribute mental states to other individuals. Some versions of the question focus on whethe…
Do Apes Read Minds
An argument that as folk psychologists humans (and perhaps other animals) don't so much read minds as see one another as persons with traits, emotions, and social relations. By adulthood, most of us have become experts in human behavior, able to make sense of the myriad behaviors we find in environments ranging from the family home to the local mall and beyond. In philosophy of mind, our understanding of others has been largely explained in terms…
It’s in your nature
It’s in your nature
Animal Culture and Animal Welfare
Following recent arguments that cultural practices in wild animal populations have important conservation implications, we argue that recognizing captive animals as cultural has important welfare implications. Having a culture is of deep importance for cultural animals, wherever they live. Without understanding the cultural capacities of captive animals, we will be left with a deeply impoverished view of what they need to flourish. Best practices…
Introduction to Folk Psychology
Chimpanzee mind reading
Since the question "Do chimpanzees have a theory of mind?" was raised in 1978, scientists have attempted to answer it, and philosophers have attempted to clarify what the question means and whether it has been, or could be, answered. Mindreading (a term used mostly by philosophers) or theory of mind (a term preferred by scientists) refers to the ability to attribute mental states to other individuals. Some versions of the question focus on whethe…
It’s in your nature
Do Apes Read Minds
An argument that as folk psychologists humans (and perhaps other animals) don't so much read minds as see one another as persons with traits, emotions, and social relations. By adulthood, most of us have become experts in human behavior, able to make sense of the myriad behaviors we find in environments ranging from the family home to the local mall and beyond. In philosophy of mind, our understanding of others has been largely explained in terms…
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Animal Minds
The insight gained from Ruth Millikan leads us to investigate animal communication not by considering Gricean communicative intentions, but instead by considering feature of intentional communication, namely the flexible interaction between the participants of the communicative situation. Whether nonhuman primates communicate intentionally, that is, whether they rely on intentions, such as goals and beliefs about goals and knowledge states of the…
Chimpanzee mind reading
Since the question "Do chimpanzees have a theory of mind?" was raised in 1978, scientists have attempted to answer it, and philosophers have attempted to clarify what the question means and whether it has been, or could be, answered. Mindreading (a term used mostly by philosophers) or theory of mind (a term preferred by scientists) refers to the ability to attribute mental states to other individuals. Some versions of the question focus on whethe…
Chimpanzee Rights
Since 2013, an organization called the Nonhuman Rights Project has brought before the New York State courts an unusual request—asking for habeas corpus hearings to determine whether Kiko and Tommy, two captive chimpanzees, should be considered legal persons with the fundamental right to bodily liberty. While the courts have agreed that chimpanzees share emotional, behavioural, and cognitive similarities with humans, they have denied that chimpanz…
Naïve Normativity
To answer tantalizing questions such as whether animals are moral or how morality evolved, I propose starting with a somewhat less fraught question: do animals have normative cognition? Recent psychological research suggests that normative thinking, or ought-thought, begins early in human development. Recent philosophical research suggests that folk psychology is grounded in normative thought. Recent primatology research finds evidence of sophist…
If Skill is Normative, Then Norms are Everywhere
Birch sketches out an ingenious account of how the psychology of social norms emerged from individual-level norms of skill. We suggest that these individual-level norms of skill are likely to be much more widespread than Birch suggests, extending deeper into the hominid lineage, across modern great ape species, all the way to distantly related creatures like honeybees. This suggests that there would have been multiple opportunities for social nor…
Introduction to Folk Psychology
Animal Culture and Animal Welfare
Following recent arguments that cultural practices in wild animal populations have important conservation implications, we argue that recognizing captive animals as cultural has important welfare implications. Having a culture is of deep importance for cultural animals, wherever they live. Without understanding the cultural capacities of captive animals, we will be left with a deeply impoverished view of what they need to flourish. Best practices…
Rule-ish Patterns in the Psychology of Norms
“All animals are conscious”
The marker approach is taken as best practice for answering the distribution question : Which animals are conscious? However, the methodology can be used to increase confidence in animals many presume to be unconscious, including C. elegans , leading to a trilemma: accept the worms as conscious; reject the specific markers; or reject the marker methodology for answering the distribution question. I defend the third option and argue that answering…
How Not to Find Over-Imitation in Animals
While more species are being identified as cultural on a regular basis, stark differences between human and animal cultures remain. Humans are more richly cultural, with group-specific practices and social norms guiding almost every element of our lives. Furthermore, human culture is seen as cumulative, cooperative, and normative, in contrast to animal cultures. One hypothesis to explain these differences is grounded in the observation that human…
Psychology (10 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Cognitive science (6 works) · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Child and Animal Learning Development (4 works) · Cognitive psychology (4 works) · Cognition (3 works)