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THE XAVIER ZUBIRI REVIEW a publication of The Xavier Zubiri Foundation of North America Volume 13 ISSN 1538-5795 2013-2015 —————————————————————————————————— Zubiri Studies in the 21st Century Editorial Ontología y ciencia: de la substancia aristotélica a la sustantividad zubiriana Carlos Sierra Lechuga Quantum Field Theory and Zubiri’s Philosophy of Reality Thomas B. Fowler Naturaleza, Estructura y Sostenibilidad Francisco Jose Ortega Martinez Zubiri and Contemporary Ontology Eric Weislogel ¿Tiene sentido la crítica de Gustavo Bueno al concepto zubiriano de religación? Joathas Soares Bello O Xavier Zubiri e a dereita revolucionaria Alexandre Xavier Casanova Domingo La realidad nunca traicionada Nativitat Senserrich y Morata The Transcendental Panentheism Of Xavier Zubiri In Nature, History, God And Man And God C. Eduardo Sanchez Gauto J. J. Gibson’s Psychology of Perception from Zubiri’s Standpoint Alfonso de la Puerta González-Quevedo Book Reviews Editorial Review Board for Volume 13 Thomas Fowler President, Xavier Zubiri Foundation of North America, Wash- ington, DC, USA Antonio González General Secretary, Fundación Xavier Zubiri, Madrid Xavier Sotil Baylos Former Rector, Seminario “Redemptoris Mater”, Brasilia, Brazil Guillerma Díaz Muñoz Professor of Philosophy, Instituto de Enseñanza Secundaria de Madrid, Spain Special thanks once again to Mr. Robert J. Todd, whose generous contributions to the Foundation have made this issue of the Review possible. Sponsors Sought for The Xavier Zubiri Review The Foundation is seeking sponsors for future volumes of The Xavier Zubiri Review, generous friends of the Foundation who could underwrite the modest cost of publishing and mailing the Review. If you are interested in this important work, please contact the President of the Foundation at your convenience, using the information on page 2. Thank you! Subscription Information The Xavier Zubiri Review is published as a service to the worldwide community of schol- ars interested in the philosophy of Xavier Zubiri. It is primarily an electronic journal, and all volumes are available for download in Adobe PDF format from the Foundation’s website, www.zubiri.org/general/xzreview/xzreview.html. A limited number of printed copies is available for the most recent volume and some earlier volumes. These copies are distributed free of charge to qualifying organizations. Others may purchase copies for $US 20, postpaid. For further information, please contact the Editor by e-mail, edi- [email protected]. Information for Contributors The Xavier Zubiri Review is always seeking quality manuscripts on Zubiri’s philosophy for publication. Please see the “Call for Papers” on page 171 of this issue for further information regarding manuscript submission. THE XAVIER ZUBIRI REVIEW Volume 13 ISSN 1538-5795 2013-2015 Zubiri Studies in the 21st Century Editorial .............................................................................................. 3 Ontología y ciencia: de la substancia aristotélica a la sustantividad zubiriana Carlos Sierra Lechuga ............................................................................... 5 Quantum Field Theory and Zubiri’s Philosophy of Reality Thomas B. Fowler ................................................................................... 23 Naturaleza, Estructura y Sostenibilidad Francisco Jose Ortega Martinez .......................................................... 43 Zubiri and Contemporary Ontology Eric Weislogel .................................................................................... 57 ¿Tiene sentido la crítica de Gustavo Bueno al concepto zubiriano de religación? Joathas Soares Bello .......................................................................... 77 O Xavier Zubiri e a dereita revolucionaria Alexandre Xavier Casanova Domingo ................................................. 87 La realidad nunca traicionada Nativitat Senserrich y Morata ............................................................. 97 The Transcendental Panentheism Of Xavier Zubiri In Nature, History, God And Man And God C. Eduardo Sanchez Gauto .............................................................. 107 J. J. Gibson’s Psychology of Perception from Zubiri’s Standpoint Alfonso de la Puerta González-Quevedo ............................................ 133 Book Reviews .............................................................................................. 167 Call for papers ............................................................................................ 171 1 Entire contents © 2015 by the Xavier Zubiri Foundation of North America. Permission to republish in any form is hereby granted, provided that source is acknowledged. Electronic versions of the texts contained herein are available at the Foundation’s web site, www.zubiri.org. The Xavier Zubiri Foundation of North America is incorporated as a non-profit, charitable educational organization under the laws of the District of Columbia. It is recognized as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt foundation by the Internal Revenue Service. The Foundation’s purpose is to promote the work of Xavier Zubiri and expand awareness of his philosophy, especially in the English-speaking world. The Xavier Zubiri Foundation of North America 1571 44th Street, NW Washington, DC 20007 Phone 202-298-0495, Fax 202-338-9084 www.zubiri.org Please direct all e-mail correspondence to the president, Dr. Thomas Fowler, at [email protected] 2 Zubiri Studies in the 21st Century Editorial This issue brings together a wide range of topics, and shows the current breadth and depth of Zubiri scholarship. It also illustrates the great variety of areas where researchers have found application for Zubiri’s philosophy. This is extremely important because it allows Zubiri’s thought to enter into wide areas of scholarship and research, far beyond the confines of the philosophy class- room and seminar. Philosophy of course should be a touchstone for knowledge in all areas, and influence as well as be influenced by developments in those areas, as Zubiri well knew. This means that scholars and researchers in many areas such as physics, medicine, economics, and political theory—just to name a few—must take the time to engage with the problems of philosophy and in particular Zubiri’s ideas. Zubiri told me once that he got along better with sci- entists than with philosophers. The articles by Lechuga and Fowler penetrate deeply into science and how Zubiri’s thought fits well with it, especially contemporary science, at the cutting edge. Lechuga looks at the developments in science and points out that in many ways science is still mired in Aristotelian ways of thinking, especially in terms of substance, when Zubiri’s notion of substantivity is a better fit. Fowler discusses Quantum Field Theory and how Zubiri’s ideas are able to handle the many new ideas there, such as virtual particles, symmetry, negative energy, negative momentum, and the blurring of the distinction between mathematics and physics. Most earlier philosophies are unable to come to grips with these new ideas—ideas that have been forced upon us by careful observation and ex- perimentation with the most advanced equipment in the world, such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Geneva. The article by Ortega looks at economics and sustainability in today’s world—both very important subjects. He points out the inadequacy of conceptions based on positivism and analytic philosophy, in favor of Zubiri’s ideas. Eric Weislogel looks at new metaphysical ideas such as trope theory, and discusses them in the context of Zubiri’s phi- losophy. In the area of theology we have two articles. Soares Bello’s article considers criticism of Zubiri’s concept of religation, and shows that the criticism is not justified. Sanchez Gauto examines Zubiri’s theology as manifested in Na- ture, History, God and concludes that it represents a type of transcendental panentheism, defined as a “vision” of God in the world and the world in God. In the realm of psychology we have a very interesting in-depth study of the paral- lels between the theories of American psychologist J. J. Gibson and Zubiri’s noology. The article by Casanova Domingo is definitely a different take on polit- ical theory with respect to Zubiri, rather different than the take of Senserrich y Morata. We leave it to the reader to reflect on this and the other matters raised in this issue. Thomas B. Fowler June, 2015 3 Ontología y ciencia: de la substancia aristotélica a la sus- tantividad zubiriana1 Carlos Sierra Lechuga Grupo de investigación Círculo de Filosofía de la Naturaleza Université de Strasbourg, Francia2 Abstract Science, for over a hundred years, has given new ways of approaching physical reality and, thereby, also the necessity of new horizons of understanding. We now face classical problems such as the principle of least action, but new ones such as the physical difference between gravitational mass and inertial mass, the formerly so-called “wave-particle duali- ty”, the thin line between the observer and the observed both experimentally—Compton Effect, for example—and theoretically—Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle—the problem of integrating gravitational force into the standard model, the impassable barrier of limit of the speed of transmission of information, the problem of evolution and its many theories, living organisms, self-organization of matter, the binding quantum, emergence of intelligence, macromolecules, the passage between a macromolecule to a cell, space-time,