Publications by Topic

Publications by topic

Animal Minds and Consciousness

2024    “All animals are conscious”: Shifting the null hypothesis in consciousness science. Mind & Language. https://doi.org/10.1111/mila.12498

2023    What is it like to be a crab? Aeon

2023 Consciousness beyond the human case. LeDoux, J., Birch, J., Andrews, K., Clayton, N. S., Daw, N. D., Frith, C., Lau, H., Peters, M. A. K., Schneider, S., Seth, A., Suddendorf, T., & Vandekerckhove, M. M. P. (2023). Current Biology, 33(16), R832–R840.

2023 What has feelings?” K. Andrews & J. Birch, Aeon

2022 How mindshaping and social maintenance can support shared intentions in great apes. with Dennis Papadopoulos. HUMANA.MENTE Journal of Philosophical Studies, 15(42), 205-223.

2022 Does the sentience framework imply all animals are conscious? Commentary on Crump et al. “Sentience in decapod crustaceans: A general framework and review of the evidence”, Animal Sentience 32(17).

2022 Animal moral psychologies with Susana Monsó. John Doris and Manuel Vargas, eds. The Moral Psychology Handbook. Second Edition. Oxford: University Press.

2022 The question of animal emotions with Frans de Waal. Science 375(6587), 1351-1352.

2020 How To Study Animal Minds. Cambridge University Press, Elements in The Philosophy of Biology Series.

2020 The Animal Mind: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Animal Minds, Second edition. Routledge.

2020 Folk psychology: Pluralistic approaches with Shannon Spaulding and Evan Westra. Introduction to special issue of Synthese.

2020 Naïve normativity: The social foundation of moral cognition  Journal of the American Philosophical Association 6(1), 35-56.

Belief and representation in nonhuman animals. With Sarah Beth Lesson and Brandon Tinklenberg. In Paco Calvo, Sarah Robins, and John Symons, eds. Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Psychology, Second edition. Forthcoming.

Mind. In Lori Gruen, ed. Critical Terms in Animal Studies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 234-250. 2018.

Normative Practices of Other Animals. With Sarah Vincent and Rebecca Ring. In Karen Jones, Mark Timmons and Aaron Zimmerman, eds. The Routledge Handbook of Moral Epistemology. New York: Routledge, 57-83. 2018. 

Do apes attribute beliefs to predict behavior? A Mengzian social intelligence hypothesis. The Harvard Review of Philosophy. 25:89-110. 2018. 

Apes Track False Beliefs but Might Not Understand Them. Learning and Behavior. 46(1): 3-4. 2018.

Do Chimpanzees Reason About Belief? In Kristin Andrews and Jacob Beck, eds. The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Animal Minds. New York: Routledge, 258-268. 2017.  

The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Animal Minds
Kristin Andrews and Jacob Beck, eds.
Routledge, 2017

Chimpanzee Mindreading: Don’t Stop Believing. Philosophy Compass. 12(1) e12394. 2017. 

Snipping or Editing? Parsimony in the Chimpanzee Mindreading Debate. Symposium on Elliott Sober’s book Ockham’s Razors. Metascience. 25 (3):377-386. 2016.

How to tell what animals think and feel. Book review of Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel by Carl Safina. BioScience. 66(7): 614-616. 2016.

The Animal Mind. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Animal Cognition.
Routledge, 2015

Anthropomorphism, Anthropectomy, and the Null Hypothesis. With Brian Huss. Biology and Philosophy. 29(5): 711-729. 2014. 

Are Apes’ Responses to Pointing Gestures Intentional? With Olivia Sultanescu. Humana. Mente Journal of Philosophical Studies. Special Issue Pointing: Where Embodied Cognition Meets the Symbolic Mind. (24): 53-77. 2013. 

It’s Like He’s Thinking or Something. In John Huss, ed. Planet of the Apes and Philosophy. Chicago: Open Court Books, 3-14. 2013.

Pantomime in Great Apes: Evidence and Implications. With Anne Russon. Communicative and Integrative Biology. 4(3): 315-317. 2011. 

Orangutan Pantomime: Elaborating the Message. With Anne Russon. Biology Letters. 7(4): 627-30. 2011.  

Politics or Metaphysics? On Attributing Mental Properties to Animals. Biology and Philosophy. 24(1): 51-63. 2009. 

Chimpanzee Theory of Mind: Looking in All the Wrong Places. Mind and Language. 20(5): 521–536. 2005. 

Communication

2011 Pantomime in Great Apes: Evidence and Implications. With Anne Russon. Communicative and Integrative Biology. 4(3): 315-317. 2011. 

2011 Orangutan Pantomime: Elaborating the Message. With Anne Russon. Biology Letters. 7(4): 627-30. 2011.

2013 Are Apes’ Responses to Pointing Gestures Intentional? With Olivia Sultanescu. Humana. Mente Journal of Philosophical Studies. Special Issue Pointing: Where Embodied Cognition Meets the Symbolic Mind.(24): 53-77.

Theory of Mind

2022 How mindshaping and social maintenance can support shared intentions in great apes. with Dennis Papadopoulos. HUMANA.MENTE Journal of Philosophical Studies, 15(42), 205-223.

2020 Folk psychology: Pluralistic approaches with Shannon Spaulding and Evan Westra. Introduction to special issue of Synthese.

Do apes attribute beliefs to predict behavior? A Mengzian social intelligence hypothesis. The Harvard Review of Philosophy. 25:89-110. 2018.

Apes Track False Beliefs but Might Not Understand Them.Learning and Behavior. 46(1): 3-4. 2018. 

Pluralistic folk psychology in humans and other animals. In Julian Kiverstein, ed. The Routledge Handbook of the Social Mind. New York: Routledge, 117-138. 2017. 

Do Chimpanzees Reason About Belief? In Kristin Andrews and Jacob Beck, eds. The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Animal Minds. New York: Routledge, 258-268. 2017.  

Chimpanzee Mindreading: Don’t Stop Believing. Philosophy Compass. 12(1) e12394. 2017. 

Snipping or Editing? Parsimony in the Chimpanzee Mindreading Debate. Symposium on Elliott Sober’s book Ockham’s Razors. Metascience. 25 (3):377-386. 2016.

Book review of Personhood, Ethics, and Animal Cognition: Situating Animals in Hare’s Two-Level Utilitarianism by Gary E. Varner and The Philosophy of Animal Minds. Ed. by Robert W. Lurz. Mind. 123(491): 959-966. 2014.

Book review of Mindreading Animals by Robert W. Lurz Notre Dame Philosophical Review. March 30. 2012.

Social Knowledge. With Keith Jensen, Joan B. Silk, Redouan Bshary, Dorthy L. Cheney, Nathan Emery, Charlotte K. Hemelrijk, Kay Holekamp, Derek C. Penn, Josef Perner, and Christoph Teufel. In Randolf Menzel and Julia Fischer, eds. Animal Thinking: Contemporary Issues in Comparative Cognition (Strüngmann Forum Reports). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 267-292. 2011.

Critter Psychology: On the Possibility of Nonhuman Animal Folk Psychology. In Daniel D. Hutto & Matthew Ratcliffe, eds. Folk Psychology Re-Assessed.New York: Springer, 191-210. 2007. 

Chimpanzee Theory of Mind: Looking in All the Wrong Places. Mind and Language. 20(5): 521–536. 2005. 

Culture and Social Norms

2024    Andrews, K., Fitzpatrick, S., Westra, E. Human and nonhuman norms: A dimensional framework. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2023.0026

2024    Westra, E.,, Fitzpatrick, S., Brosnan, S.F., Gruber, T., Hobaiter, C., Hopper, L.M., Kelly, D., Krupenye, C., Luncz, L.V., Theriault, J. Andrews, K. In search of animal normativity: A framework for studying social norms in nonhuman animals. Biological Reviews.  https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.13056

2023  Humans, the norm breakers. Commentary on Kumar and Campbell’s A Better Ape. Biology & Philosophy 38, 35. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-023-09918-w.

2023 Rule-ish patterns in the psychology of norms with Evan Westra. Commentary on Heyes “Rethinking norm psychology” Perspectives on Psychological Science.

2022    Papadopoulos, D & Andrews, K. How mindshaping and social maintenance can support shared intentions in great apes. HUMANA.MENTE Journal of Philosophical Studies, 15(42), 205-223.

2022 A pluralistic framework for the psychology of norms with Evan Westra. Biology & Philosophy 37, 40.

2022 Animal culture meets animal welfare with Simon Fitzpatrick. The Journal of the Philosophy of Science 89(5), 1104-1113. 

2022 The hidden world of octopus cities and cultures shows why it’s wrong to farm them. The Conversation Canada.

2021 If skill is normative, then norms are everywhere with Evan Westra. Analyse & Kritik 43(1), 203-218 (2021). 

2020 What we miss when we overlook animal culture EurSafe Newsletter 22(1).

2020 Naïve normativity: The social foundation of moral cognition. The Journal of the American Philosophical Association.

2018 Normative practices of other animals with Sarah Vincent and Rebecca Ring. In Karen Jones, Mark Timmons and Aaron Zimmerman, eds. The Routledge Handbook of Moral Epistemology. New York: Routledge, 57-83.

Welfare and Ethics

2022 Animal culture meets animal welfare with Simon Fitzpatrick. The Journal of the Philosophy of Science 89(5), 1104-1113. 

2022 The hidden world of octopus cities and cultures shows why it’s wrong to farm them. The Conversation Canada.

2020 Rats are us. K. Andrews & S. Monsó. Aeon.

2020 Ethical implications of animal personhood and the role for science Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics, XXII(1), 13-32.

2018 Chimpanzee Rights: The Philosophers’ Brief with Gary L Comstock, Crozier G.K.D., Sue Donaldson, Andrew Fenton , Tyler M. John, L. Syd M Johnson, Robert C. Jones, Will Kymlica, Letitia Meynell, Nathan Nobis, David M. Peña-Guzmán, Jeff Sebo with an introduction by Lori Gruen and an afterword by Steve Wise.
Routledge.

2018 Amicus Brief for the Nonhuman Rights Project with Gary Comstock, G.K.D. Crozier, Sue Donaldson, Andrew Fenton, Tyler John, Syd M Johnson, Robert Jones, Will Kymlicka, Letitia Meynell, Nathan Nobis, David Peña-Guzmán, James Rocha, Bernard Rollin, Jeffrey Sebo, Adam Shriver, Rebecca Walker. 2018.

2017 Life in a cage. The Philosopher’s Magazine. 76:72-77.

2016 How to tell what animals think and feel. Book review of Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel by Carl Safina. BioScience. 66(7): 614-616. 2016.

2016 Book of the week book review of Voracious Science and Vulnerable Animals: A Primate Scientist’s Ethical Journey, by John P. Gluck. Times Higher Education. November 3, 2016.

Scientific Methodology

2020 How To Study Animal Minds. Cambridge University Press, Elements in The Philosophy of Biology Series.

2020 Folk psychology: Pluralistic approaches with Shannon Spaulding and Evan Westra. Introduction to special issue of Synthese.

2016 A role for folk psychology in animal cognition research. In Andreas Blank, ed. Animals: Basic Philosophical Concepts. Philosophia: Munich, 205-22. 2016.

2016 Snipping or Editing? Parsimony in the Chimpanzee Mindreading Debate. Symposium on Elliott Sober’s book Ockham’s Razors. Metascience. 25 (3):377-386. 2016.

2014 Anthropomorphism, Anthropectomy, and the Null Hypothesis. With Brian Huss. Biology and Philosophy. 29(5): 711-729. 2014.

2013 Assumptions in Animal Cognition Research. With Brian Huss. Hisashi Nakao, ed. CAPE Studies in Applied Philosophy and Ethics Series (2013), 1: 152-162.

Moral Psychology

Animal moral psychologies. Susana Monsó and Kristin Andrews. John Doris and Manuel Vargas, eds. The Moral Psychology Handbook. Second Edition. Oxford: University Press.

Normative Practices of Other Animals. With Sarah Vincent and Rebecca Ring. In Karen Jones, Mark Timmons and Aaron Zimmerman, eds. The Routledge Handbook of Moral Epistemology. New York: Routledge, 57-83. 2018. 

Personhood and animal ethics

2022 The hidden world of octopus cities and cultures shows why it’s wrong to farm them. The Conversation Canada.

2020 Rats are us. K. Andrews & S. Monsó. Aeon.

2020 Ethical implications of animal personhood and the role for science Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics, XXII(1), 13-32.

2018 Chimpanzee Rights: The Philosophers’ Brief
Kristin Andrews, Gary L Comstock, Crozier G.K.D., Sue Donaldson, Andrew Fenton , Tyler M. John, L. Syd M Johnson, Robert C. Jones, Will Kymlica, Letitia Meynell, Nathan Nobis, David M. Peña-Guzmán, Jeff Sebo with an introduction by Lori Gruen and an afterword by Steve Wise.
Routledge, 2018

2018 Chicken minds and moral standing. Commentary on Marino on “thinking chickens”. Animal Sentience. 17(14). 2018.

2018 Amicus Brief for the Nonhuman Rights Project. With Gary Comstock, G.K.D. Crozier, Sue Donaldson, Andrew Fenton, Tyler John, Syd M Johnson, Robert Jones, Will Kymlicka, Letitia Meynell, Nathan Nobis, David Peña-Guzmán, James Rocha, Bernard Rollin, Jeffrey Sebo, Adam Shriver, Rebecca Walker. 2018.

2017 Cow Persons? How to Find Out. Commentary on Marino and King. Animal Behavior and Cognition. 4(4) 499-501. 2017.

2017 Life in a Cage. The Philosopher’s Magazine. 76:72-77. January 2017. 

2016 The Psychological Concept of ‘Person’. Commentary on Rowlands on Animal Personhood. Animal Sentience. 10(17). 2016.

2016 Book of the week book review of Voracious Science and Vulnerable Animals: A Primate Scientist’s Ethical Journey, by John P. Gluck. Times Higher Education. November 3, 2016.

2014 Book review of Personhood, Ethics, and Animal Cognition: Situating Animals in Hare’s Two-Level Utilitarianism by Gary E. Varner and The Philosophy of Animal Minds. Ed. by Robert W. Lurz. Mind. 123(491): 959-966. 2014.

2013 Great Ape Mindreading: What’s at Stake? In Annette Lanjouw and Raymond Corbey, eds. The Politics of Species: Reshaping our Relationships with Other Animals. Cambridge: University Press, 115-125. 2013. 

1996 The First Step in the Case for Great Ape Equality: The Argument for Other Minds. Special issue devoted to The Great Ape Project. Etica & Animali. 8: 131-141. 1996.