Colin Allen is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has previously held appointments in philosophy at Texas A&M University, and in cognitive science and history & philosophy of science at Indiana University and the University of Pittsburgh. HIs work spans a wide range of empirical and philosophical issues in cognitive science, with particular but not exclusive focus on animal cognition and artificial intelligence represented by books such as Species of Mind: the Philosophy and Biology of Cognitive Ethology and Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right from Wrong The concept of “intentionality” has been core to his research program, beginning with his dissertation about attributions of intentional states to nonhuman primates. He is currently PI of two funded projects, one about the attribution of positive emotions to animals and the other about how groups of agents, including human-machine collectives, may have rational capacities that the individual group members lack.