Independent Philosophy Publisher · Vancouver, Canada

Philosophy for public and serious readers.

Onward Philosophy Press is an independent philosophy publisher based in Vancouver, Canada. It publishes philosophy for public readers who want serious, sustained thought, beginning with public philosophy series and later expanding to Chinese Thought and academic philosophy.

Current Focus

Public Philosophy

Public Philosophy is the first active publishing area of Onward Philosophy Press. Six first-season series are being developed for readers who want rigorous thought outside narrow academic enclosure.

承受系列 Bearing Series

A public philosophy series on finitude, loss, hope, love, goodness, and judgment under the conditions of an unfinished life.

  • 有限性：在不可完成中承受
  • Finitude: Bearing What Cannot Be Completed

成为人的教育 Education for Becoming Human

A public philosophy series on education as the formation of judgment, attention, reading, language, freedom, and discipline.

  • 孩子不是项目：教育不是占有孩子的人生
  • Children Are Not Projects: Education Without Possession

AI时代的人 After AI / The Human After AI

A public philosophy series on human judgment, work, truth, freedom, relation, love, and responsibility after AI.

  • AI不是人：为什么表现不等于人格
  • AI Is Not a Person: Why Performance Is Not Standing

关系中的人 The Human in Relation

A public philosophy series on loneliness, intimacy, recognition, family, forgiveness, and the difficulty of living with others.

  • 关系不是占有：亲密中的边界与承认
  • Relationship Is Not Possession: Boundaries and Recognition in Intimacy

工作的限度 The Limits of Work

A public philosophy series on work, efficiency, burnout, achievement, rest, and the value of life beyond the job.

  • 工作不是你的全部价值：在岗位之外重新成为自己
  • Work Is Not Your Whole Worth: Becoming Yourself Beyond the Job

文明的未来 Civilizational Futures

A public philosophy series on AI, space, technology, non-human life, responsibility, and civilizational self-limitation.

  • 宇宙时代的人：当世界不再只是地球
  • The Human in the Cosmic Age: When the World Is No Longer Only Earth

Books

First-Season Booklist

This catalogue area lists the first-season public philosophy titles only. It is intentionally separate from the homepage identity.

Each released title will receive its own book page with edition information, ISBNs, description, and purchase links.

承受系列 Bearing Series

  1. 有限性：在不可完成中承受Finitude: Bearing What Cannot Be Completed
  2. 死亡：不可替代者的边界Death: The Boundary of the Irreplaceable
  3. 苦难与恶：不可圆满世界中的承担Suffering and Evil: Bearing an Unfinished World
  4. 希望：在不可占有之后继续Hope: Continuing After Non-Possession
  5. 信念：在无保证中承受Conviction: Bearing What Cannot Be Guaranteed
  6. 爱：有限者之间的不可替代性Love: Irreplaceability Among Finite Beings
  7. 善：不可封闭之后的实践方向The Good: Practice After Non-Closure
  8. 智慧：在极限中保持判断Wisdom: Judgment at the Limit

成为人的教育 Education for Becoming Human

  1. 孩子不是项目：教育不是占有孩子的人生Children Are Not Projects: Education Without Possession
  2. 学习：答案廉价之后还剩下什么Learning: What Remains When Answers Are Cheap
  3. 判断力：孩子真正需要保护的能力Judgment: The Capacity Children Most Need
  4. 注意力不是专注技巧：在分心时代重新在场Attention: Staying Present in a Distracted Age
  5. 阅读不是刷题：在长文本中形成心智Reading: Protecting Depth in an Age of Instant Answers
  6. 语言不是表达技巧：孩子如何获得理解世界的能力Writing: Helping Children Bear Their Own Words
  7. 失败教育：让孩子学会承受未完成The Unfinished: Helping Children Learn to Bear Failure
  8. 自由与纪律：不是放任，也不是控制Freedom and Discipline: How Children Become Themselves

AI时代的人 After AI / The Human After AI

  1. AI不是人：为什么表现不等于人格AI Is Not a Person: Why Performance Is Not Standing
  2. AI时代的工作：自动化之后人的价值在哪里Work After AI: Human Worth After Automation
  3. AI时代的孩子：答案太容易之后如何成长Children After AI: Growing Up When Answers Are Instant
  4. AI时代的孤独：机器陪伴与真实关系Loneliness After AI: Machine Companionship and Human Presence
  5. AI时代的教育：机器会给答案之后如何学习Education After AI: Learning When Machines Can Give Answers
  6. AI时代的自由：不要把判断外包Freedom After AI: Refusing to Outsource Judgment
  7. AI时代的真相：生成内容之后如何判断Truth After AI: Judgment in a World of Generated Speech
  8. AI时代的爱：虚拟亲密与不可替代的人Love After AI: Virtual Intimacy and the Irreplaceable Human

关系中的人 The Human in Relation

  1. 孤独不是失败：在不可共享处生活Loneliness Is Not Failure: Living with What Cannot Be Shared
  2. 关系不是占有：亲密中的边界与承认Relationship Is Not Possession: Boundaries and Recognition in Intimacy
  3. 被理解的渴望：回应、承认与真实相遇The Desire to Be Understood: Response, Recognition, and Real Encounter
  4. 分开之后：失去、放手与重新生活After Separation: Loss, Release, and Living Again
  5. 爱不是融合：如何在亲密中保留彼此Love Is Not Fusion: Preserving the Other in Intimacy
  6. 家人之间：爱、责任与无法选择的关系Family Ties: Love, Responsibility, and Relationships We Do Not Choose
  7. 宽恕不是遗忘：在不可撤销之后重新面对Forgiveness Is Not Forgetting: Facing What Cannot Be Undone
  8. 共同生活：在不能完全理解中仍然相伴Living Together: Presence Without Complete Understanding

工作的限度 The Limits of Work

  1. 工作不是你的全部价值：在岗位之外重新成为自己Work Is Not Your Whole Worth: Becoming Yourself Beyond the Job
  2. 效率之后：当快不再证明价值After Efficiency: When Speed No Longer Proves Worth
  3. 倦怠不是懒惰：疲惫之后如何保住自己Burnout Is Not Laziness: Keeping Yourself After Exhaustion
  4. 中年不是失败：在重新计算人生时站稳Middle Age Is Not Failure: Standing Firm When Life Is Recalculated
  5. 无用感：当你觉得自己不再被需要Feeling Useless: When You No Longer Feel Needed
  6. 成就不是人生本身：成功之后还剩下什么Achievement Is Not Life Itself: What Remains After Success
  7. 换路不是归零：改变方向之后仍有来处Changing Course Is Not Starting from Nothing: What Remains When Life Turns
  8. 休息不是浪费：停止生产之后重新站住Rest Is Not Waste: Standing Again Beyond Production

文明的未来 Civilizational Futures

  1. 宇宙时代的人：当世界不再只是地球The Human in the Cosmic Age: When the World Is No Longer Only Earth
  2. 未来不是占有更多世界：扩张、资源与限制The Future Is Not Possessing More Worlds: Expansion, Resources, and Limits
  3. 强技术时代的文明责任：能做不等于该做Civilizational Responsibility in an Age of Powerful Technology: What Can Be Done Is Not Yet What Should Be Done
  4. 人工智能进入文明行动之后：人还如何承担？After AI Enters Civilizational Action: How Humans Still Bear Responsibility
  5. 面对不相似者：外星、人工智能与非人类生命Facing the Dissimilar Other: Alien, Artificial, and Non-Human Life
  6. 如果我们遇见外星文明：理解、恐惧与不归并If We Encounter an Alien Civilization: Understanding, Fear, and Non-Assimilation
  7. 给孩子的未来文明课：AI、宇宙与责任Lessons in Future Civilization for Children: AI, the Cosmos, and Responsibility
  8. 自由不是无限扩张：强文明如何学会自我限制Freedom Is Not Unlimited Expansion: How Strong Civilizations Learn Self-Limitation

Editorial

Editorial Commitment

Onward Philosophy Press is guided by an editorial commitment to serious thought in public language. Public philosophy here does not mean simplifying thought into slogans. It means carrying philosophical seriousness into forms that can be read, shared, and sustained by serious readers outside narrow academic specialization.

The press publishes across languages and editions, beginning with Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and English. Editorial inquiries are currently handled through the general contact address. Onward Philosophy Press is not currently operating an open submissions program.

Edition Principles

Onward Philosophy Press prepares multilingual editions with attention to terminology, consistency, readability, and format integrity. English, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese editions are treated as distinct publishing editions rather than casual file conversions.

Rights

Rights, Translation, and Licensing

For translation rights, simplified and traditional Chinese rights, foreign rights, licensing, institutional cooperation, and publishing partnerships, please contact the rights address.

  • Translation rights
  • Simplified and Traditional Chinese rights
  • Foreign rights
  • Institutional cooperation
  • Publishing partnerships
  • Permissions and excerpt requests

Rights Contact

rights@onwardphilosophypress.com

Support

Reader and Order Support

For reader support, eBook issues, paperback issues, broken purchase links, format problems, or bookstore and library order assistance, please contact support.

  • Reader support
  • eBook format issues
  • Paperback issues
  • Broken purchase links
  • Bookstore order assistance
  • Library order assistance

Support Contact

support@onwardphilosophypress.com

About

About Onward Philosophy Press

Onward Philosophy Press is an independent philosophy publisher based in Vancouver, Canada. Its Chinese name is 向哲出版社. It publishes serious books for public and serious readers.

Public Philosophy is the first active publishing area. Future areas include Chinese Thought and Public Philosophy, as well as academic philosophy titles.

Author

Jie Chen holds a PhD in philosophy from Peking University and lives in Canada. Chen’s work moves between systematic philosophy and public philosophy, seeking to bring philosophical seriousness back into the ordinary conditions of human life.

Chen’s public philosophy works address bearing, artificial intelligence, education, relation, work, and civilizational futures, asking how human beings can preserve judgment, responsibility, and direction amid limits, technological change, growth, intimacy, work pressure, and civilizational responsibility.

Contact

Contact

Website: www.onwardphilosophypress.com

Location: Vancouver, Canada