About

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John Sellars is currently:
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• Reader in the History of Philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London, where he is also Director of the Centre for the Study and Application of Stoicism 
• Associate Editor and Research Project Manager for the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle project at King's College London
• Member of Common Room at Wolfson College, Oxford, and a member of Wolfson's Ancient World Research Cluster  

​After a decade studying Philosophy, culminating in a PhD in 2001, most of his career has been spent in various colleges of the University of London, and he has taught at King's College London, Birkbeck, and Royal Holloway. He is a founder member of the London Centre for Ancient Philosophy, alongside colleagues at KCL, UCL, and Birkbeck. 

He is also a founding member of two non-profit organizations aimed at bringing the ancient philosophy of Stoicism to a wider audience, Modern Stoicism and the Aurelius Foundation. 
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