Jules Evans
Author & Policy director at the Centre for the History of Emotions
- Expertise : Author
- Languages : english
- Website : https://www.philosophyforlife.org/
JULES EVANS is a renowned policy director at the Centre for the History of Emotions at Queen Mary, University of London. Evans is also known as the author of Philosophy for Life and Other Dangerous Situations, which was published in over 19 countries and was a Times Book of the Year. Jules has written for The Times, Financial Times, Guardian, Spectator, and WIRED and is a BBC New Generation Thinker. He also runs the London Philosophy Club, the world’s biggest philosophy club.
The Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded his research on philosophy clubs. He was also involved in the Stoic Week project and Modern Stoicism, which has received press coverage everywhere from Newsweek to the New York Times and has helped to instigate the revival of Stoic philosophy in the field of modern culture. He co-organized the first Stoicon, in San Diego 2010, and two subsequent Stoicons in London and was also contributed to the Stoicism Today essay collections.
Jules teaches workshops and give talks on the topics related to emotions, well-being, transcendence and flourishing, which combine ideas from wisdom traditions with insights from modern psychotherapy. He has worked with organizations including Arsenal FC, Saracens rugby club, the Civil Service, HMP Low Moss prison, Netflix and Mind.
He is now a research fellow at a Wellcome Trust-funded project called Living with Feeling, at the Centre for the History of Emotions, Queen Mary University of London. He is researching the history, philosophy, and psychology of well-being, and how different cultures define and seek human flourishing. He wrote this report for the World Health Organisation on cultures of well-being.
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