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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.

Publishing Programme

Public Philosophy

Public Philosophy is the first active publishing area of Onward Philosophy Press. The first season includes six series for readers who want rigorous thought outside narrow academic enclosure.

Bearing Series承受系列

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

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

Education for Becoming Human成为人的教育

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

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

The Human After AIAI时代的人

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

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

The Human in Relation关系中的人

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

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

The Limits of Work工作的限度

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

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

Civilizational Futures文明的未来

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

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

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.

Publication status will distinguish titles as Available Now, Forthcoming, or In Preparation. Released titles will appear with individual book pages, ISBNs, edition information, and purchase links after release.

Bearing Series承受系列

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

Education for Becoming Human成为人的教育

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

The Human After AIAI时代的人

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

The Human in Relation关系中的人

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

The Limits of Work工作的限度

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

Civilizational Futures文明的未来

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

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.

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  • Institutional cooperation
  • Publishing partnerships
  • Permissions and excerpt requests

Rights Contact

rights@onwardphilosophypress.com

Support

Reader and Format Support

For issues with Onward Philosophy Press files or website information—such as eBook formatting problems, broken purchase links, edition metadata, ISBN information, or bookstore and library metadata inquiries—please contact support. For payment, refunds, download access, shipping, or order status, please contact the retailer or platform where the book was purchased.

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Support Contact

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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