Course

HUM-478: Emotion, value, and life-defining choices I

Summary

Most of us aspire to live meaningful lives. Yet, many of us would struggle to explain what a meaningful life is. This course provides philosophical tools and frameworks useful to understand our aspiration for meaning.

Lectures

Instructor

Alain Daniel Pé-Curto

ResearchCurrent Research Fields I conduct research in value theory, the metaphysics of value, and the philosophy of mind. I am a lecturer at EPFL, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology inLausanne, (since 2023) and a lecturer at the Department of Philosophy of the Université deFribourg–Universität Freiburg at the Chair of Ethics and Political Philosophy(starting in February 2026). I am a member of Prof. Ralf M. Bader's Ethics and Political Philosophy team since 2025. My webpage is here: https://sites.go

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https://edu.epfl.ch/coursebook/en/emotion-value-and-life-defining-choices-i-HUM-478

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http://go.epfl.ch/HUM-478

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Summary

Lectures

Instructor

Alain Daniel Pé-Curto

Official source

https://edu.epfl.ch/coursebook/en/emotion-value-and-life-defining-choices-i-HUM-478

Moodle Page

http://go.epfl.ch/HUM-478

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