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Kristin Andrews is among the 2015 cohort of new scholars, artists, and scientists in the Royal Society of Canada

Kristin Andrews is among the 2015 cohort of new scholars, artists, and scientists in the Royal Society of Canada

RSC names three York U professors to the College of New Scholars, Artists & Scientists

Kristin Andrews

Andrews has been instrumental in developing the field of philosophy of animal minds. Her interdisciplinary work in the philosophy of psychology demonstrates evolutionary continuity between human and other animals in ways that challenge human uniqueness claims based on supposedly human-unique cognitive capacities. This prize-winning research has received international attention among scholars and in the popular press, and has practical policy consequences about how we should treat other species.

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