{"id":8162,"date":"2025-09-06T17:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T17:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ub.edu\/nouweb_grc_logos\/project\/persp-philosophy-of-perspectival-thoughts-and-facts\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T17:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T17:08:11","slug":"persp-philosophy-of-perspectival-thoughts-and-facts","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/www.ub.edu\/grc_logos\/project\/persp-philosophy-of-perspectival-thoughts-and-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"PERSP &#8211; Philosophy of Perspectival Thoughts and Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"node-164\" class=\"node clear-block\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">According to a natural way of thinking, objective reality is  independent from us &ndash; independent from our thought and talk. Hence, when  we have knowledge of it, it allows for a description whose truth does  not depend on our perspectives. Nonetheless, we are familiar with the  phenomenon that the truth-value of some of our claims, on the face of it  perfectly apt to represent how things objectively are, essentially  varies depending on our perspectives.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Thus, the statement &quot;Dinosaurs last  roamed the earth 60 million years ago&quot;, true when uttered now, would not  have been true if it had been uttered, say, 10 million years ago; the  claim &quot;Time is running slower for Pollux, because he&#39;s travelling at 99%  of the speed of light&quot; might be true uttered relative to some reference  frame but not others; &ldquo;Lentils are tasty&rdquo; and, more controversially,  &ldquo;Gay marriage is acceptable&rdquo; are also perhaps true only when made  relative to particular gustative or moral perspectives; and, to provide a  totally commonplace example, the claim &ldquo;I am hungry&rdquo; is true when  uttered by some agents at some times, but not when uttered by others, or  by the same agent at a different time. How can this variation in  truth-value be reconciled with our conception of facts as being  perspective-independent? Are not those perspectives from which the  truth-value of claims like these essentially depends also an aspect of  objective reality? Our project aims to contribute to the field of  research aiming at its core to answer questions like these. These issues  have been studied in depth in contemporary philosophy by researchers  working on only some of the crucial cases for understanding the  perspectival character of our thought, and their work has provided  important results. However, while the complexity and diversity of the  phenomena makes understandable the piecemeal approach that so far has  been taken, we think that a unified attack is needed, for which the  exploiting of synergies and complementarities and the collaborative  efforts that a CONSOLIDER project allows are mandatory.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">More information: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ub.edu\/persp\/\">http:\/\/www.ub.edu\/persp\/<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a natural way of thinking, objective reality is independent from us &ndash; independent from our thought and talk. Hence, when we have knowledge of it, it allows for &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"PERSP &#8211; Philosophy of Perspectival Thoughts and Facts\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ub.edu\/grc_logos\/project\/persp-philosophy-of-perspectival-thoughts-and-facts\/#more-8162\" aria-label=\"Read more about PERSP &#8211; Philosophy of Perspectival Thoughts and Facts\">Read Moree<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"ppma_author":[42,86,50,30,37,154,44,28,40,46,29,41,38,64,43,33,39,45,35,109,63,87],"class_list":["post-8162","project","type-project","status-publish","hentry","author-manuel-garcia-carpintero","author-cristina-balaguer","author-adrian-briciu","author-marta-campdelacreu","author-jose-antonio-diez","author-marta-jorba","author-max-kolbel","author-dan-lopez-de-sa","author-josep-macia","author-teresa-marques","author-genoveva-marti","author-manolo-martinez","author-jose-martinez","author-andrei-moldovan","author-manuel-perez-otero","author-david-pineda","author-josep-lluis-prades","author-sven-rosenkranz","author-joan-pages","author-fiora-salis","author-andreas-pietz","author-dan-zeman"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ub.edu\/grc_logos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/8162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ub.edu\/grc_logos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ub.edu\/grc_logos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/project"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ub.edu\/grc_logos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ub.edu\/grc_logos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/8162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ub.edu\/grc_logos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ub.edu\/grc_logos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=8162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}