Prof. Florian Cova
Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Humanities and member of the Swiss Centre for Affective Sciences
Florian Cova is Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Geneva and member of the Swiss Centre for affective sciences (CISA). His research on happiness and the meaning of life is financed by an Eccellenza scholarship from the Swiss National Science Foundation (2019-2024). In addition, together with Prof. David Sander, he is coordinating research on the role of positive emotions in philanthropic behaviour. His research is at the crossroads of philosophy and cognitive sciences and covers fields as varied as philosophy of action, ethics, aesthetics, philosophy of mind, psychology of emotions and moral psychology.