Andrews, Kristin

Kristin Andrews is a philosophy professor and Director of the Cognitive Science Program at York University, in Toronto, Canada. Her interests in animal and child social cognition and communication have led her to work with dolphins in Hawaii (Kewalo Basin Marine Mammal Laboratory), children in Minnesota (Institute for Child Development), and, most recently, orangutans in Borneo (Samboja Lestari Reintroduction Project). In her recent book Do Apes Read Minds? Toward a New Folk Psychology (2012), Andrews brings together her empirical and theoretical work to argue that humans are not quite so fancy, and the other apes are not quite so simple, as some think.