Kristin Andrews

American philosopher, writer and academic

Kristin Andrews
Kristin in 2017
Born	Nashville, United States
Occupation	Professor

Academic background
Education	B.A., 1992, Antioch College M.A., 1995, Western Michigan University PhD, Philosophy, 2000, University of Minnesota
Thesis	Predicting mind: belief attribution in philosophy and psychology (2000)
Academic work
Institutions	Appalachian State University York University

Website	kristinandrews.org

Kristin Alexandra Andrews is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at York University and she holds the York Research Chair in Animal Minds.

Early life and education

Andrews attended Antioch College and conducted co-op research at the Kewalo Basin Marine Mammal Laboratory in Hawaii. After earning her Bachelor of Arts, she moved to Western Michigan University for her Master's degree where her first article was published in Etica et Animali.^[1]

Career

After earning her PhD from the University of Minnesota under the supervision of Ronald Giere, she became an assistant professor of philosophy at Appalachian State University from July 2000 until June 2002.^[2] Andrews joined the faculty at York University following encouragement from York Psychology Professor Anne E. Russon.^[1] She received the Western Michigan University Distinguished Alumni Award in 2011.^[3] The next year, she published "Do Apes Read Minds? Toward a New Folk Psychology" through the MIT Press.^[4]

In 2015, Andrews was elected a Member of the College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists from the Royal Society of Canada.^[5] The next year, she was appointed a Tier II York Research Chair in Animal Minds,^[6] and received a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Insight Grant for her project, "Animals and Moral Practice."^[7] Andrews was also awarded the Philosophy of Science Women's Caucus Award^[8] and recognized by York University as a research leader.^[9]

In 2018, Andrews was a member of York's Artificial Intelligence and Society Task Force.^[10] She also published her second book, titled Chimpanzee Rights: The Philosophers' Brief (ISBN 1138618667). The following year, she earned $250,000 over two years for her project, "Zero-Gravity 3D Bioprinting of Super-Soft Materials," with Alex Czekanski, Tara Haas, and Roxanne Mykitiuk.^[11]

References

^ ^a ^b "People of YorkU". peopleofyu.yorku.ca. Retrieved November 10, 2019.
^ "KRISTIN ALEXANDRA ANDREWS CV" (PDF). kristinandrews.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 11, 2019. Retrieved November 10, 2019.
^ "Alumni 2011 Achievement Awards" (PDF). wmich.edu. 2011. p. 17. Retrieved November 10, 2019.
^ "Do Apes Read Minds?: Toward a New Folk Psychology". phil.laps.yorku.ca. Retrieved November 10, 2019.
^ "RSC names three York U professors to the College of New Scholars, Artists & Scientists". yfile.news.yorku.ca. October 13, 2015. Retrieved November 10, 2019.
^ Muhammad Ali Khalidi (April 12, 2017). "Professor Kristin Andrews appointed to York Research Chair". phil.laps.yorku.ca. Retrieved November 10, 2019.
^ Muhammad Ali Khalidi (August 29, 2016). "Two SSHRC Insight Grants for Professors Andrews and Code". phil.laps.yorku.ca. Retrieved November 10, 2019.
^ Muhammad Ali Khalidi (December 6, 2016). "Philosophy of Science Women's Caucus Award to Professor Kristin Andrews". phil.laps.yorku.ca. Retrieved November 10, 2019.
^ "York University research leaders recognized at annual celebration". yfile.news.yorku.ca. February 28, 2016. Retrieved November 10, 2019.
^ "Co-Chairs and members of the Artificial Intelligence and Society Task Force announced". yfile.news.yorku.ca. November 26, 2018. Retrieved November 10, 2019.
^ "York professors awarded close to $1M in New Frontiers in Research funding". yfile.news.yorku.ca. May 14, 2019. Retrieved November 10, 2019.

External links

Official website
Kristin Andrews publications indexed by Google Scholar

Animal rights

Topics (overviews, concepts, issues, cases)

Overviews

Concepts

Issues

Animal agriculture	Animal product Battery cage Bile bear Chick culling Concentrated animal feeding operation Fish farming Fur farming Fur trade Insect farming Intensive animal farming Intensive pig farming Livestock Poultry farming Slaughterhouse Wildlife farming Working animal Feedback (pork industry) Foam depopulation Ventilation shutdown
Animal testing	Alternatives to animal testing Animal testing on non-human primates Animal testing regulations Labcorp Drug Development Great ape research ban Green Scare Huntingdon Life Sciences Model organism Nafovanny Operation Backfire Vivisection
Animal welfare	Animal euthanasia Cruelty to animals Pain in animals Pain in amphibians Pain in cephalopods Pain in crustaceans Pain in fish Pain in invertebrates Pain and suffering in laboratory animals Welfare of farmed insects
Fishing	Commercial fishing Fishing bait Recreational fishing
Wild animals	Culling wildlife Hare coursing Hunting International primate trade Ivory trade Predation problem Seal hunting Wild animal suffering Wildlife management
Other	Abandoned pets Animal sacrifice Animal slaughter Animal trial Animals in sport Live food Live export

Cases

Methodologies

Observances

Advocates (academics, writers, activists)

Academics
and writers

Contemporary

Historical

Activists

Contemporary

Historical

Movement (groups, parties)

Groups

Contemporary

Historical

Animal Defence and Anti-Vivisection Society
Canadian Anti-Vivisection Society
Humanitarian League (1891–1919)
Oxford Group

Parties

Animal Justice Party (Australia)
Animal Politics EU (Europe)
Animal Protection Party of Canada (Canada)
Animal Justice Party of Finland (Finland)
Animals' Party (Sweden)
Animalist Movement (Italy)
Animalist Party Against Mistreatment of Animals (Spain)
DierAnimal (Belgium)
Human Environment Animal Protection (Germany)
Italian Animalist Party (Italy)
Party for the Animals (Netherlands)
People Animals Nature (Portugal)
V-Partei³ (Germany)

Activism

Animal Rights National Conference

Media (books, films, periodicals, albums)

Books

On Abstinence from Eating Animals (3rd century)
Moral Inquiries on the Situation of Man and of Brutes (1824)
The Rights of Animals (1838)
Animals' Rights (1892)
Evolutional Ethics and Animal Psychology (1897)
The Universal Kinship (1906)
The New Ethics (1907)
Animals, Men and Morals (1971)
Animal Liberation (1975)
The Case for Animal Rights (1983)
Morals, Reason, and Animals (1987)
Zoos and Animal Rights (1993)
Animals, Property, and the Law (1995)
The Lives of Animals (1999)
Eternal Treblinka (2001)
Do Animals Have Rights? (2005)
Striking at the Roots (2008)
An American Trilogy (2009)
An Introduction to Animals and Political Theory (2010)
Animal Rights Without Liberation (2012)
Political Animals and Animal Politics (2014)
Animal (De)liberation (2016)
Sentientist Politics (2018)
Wild Animal Ethics (2020)
Animal Ethics in the Wild (2022)
Making a Stand for Animals (2022)

Films

The Animals Film (1981)
A Cow at My Table (1998)
Shores of Silence (2000)
The Witness (2000)
Meet Your Meat (2002)
Legally Blonde 2 (2003)
The Meatrix (2003)
Peaceable Kingdom (2004)
Earthlings (2005)
Behind the Mask (2006)
Your Mommy Kills Animals (2007)
The Cove (2009)
Peaceable Kingdom: The Journey Home (2009)
Forks Over Knives (2011)
Vegucated (2011)
An Apology to Elephants (2013)
Speciesism: The Movie (2013)
The Ghosts in Our Machine (2013)
Unlocking the Cage (2016)
Dominion (2018)
Seaspiracy (2021)

Periodicals

Journals	Animal Sentience Between the Species Cahiers antispécistes Etica & Animali Journal of Animal Ethics Relations. Beyond Anthropocentrism The Animals' Defender
Magazines	Arkangel Bite Back Muutoksen kevät No Compromise Satya