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Kristin Andrews I am Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Cognitive Science Program at York University, in Toronto. My interests in animal and child social cognition and communication have always extended beyond the library, and I have worked with dolphins in Hawaii (Kewalo Basin Marine Mammal Laboratory), children in Minnesota (Institute for Child Development), and orangutans in Borneo (Samboja Lestari Reintroduction Project). My main research interests are, broadly, animal cognition and folk psychology. My book Do Apes Read Minds? Toward a New Folk Psychology will be out with MIT Press in 2012. I criticize the mainstream folk psychology and theory of mind debates, and argue that most of the behaviors associated with folk psychology do not require the attribution of propositional attitudes. Like in most of my research, in this book I integrate philosophical research with empirical work done with human children, adults, and other great apes. Other academic interests: Anthropomorphism; Great ape ethics; Cognition in the field; Methodology in animal cognition research; Orangutan pantomime; False belief explanation; Chimpanzee theory of mind; Nature of belief Other activities: Executive Board Vista Alternative Montessori Project Executive Board Borneo Orangutan Society Canada |
