# Mind and Language Review Restricted Auditory Aspatialism **Keywords:** iew **Abstract:** by introducing a restricted notion of audition to which the objection does not apply (Strawson 1959). I take the latter course here, arguing that there is a restricted notion of audition for which aspatialism is true and that, in developing this restricted aspatialism, a third line of resistance opens against the objection to unrestricted aspatialism: It remains possible that the spatial phenomenology cited in the objection is not properly ascribed to audition, even the everyday notion of audition at play in the objection. So the objection is not conclusive. ly On Page 1 of 27 Mind & Language Restricted Auditory Aspatialism Word count: 9,878 Frequently, on nighttime walks through my neighborhood, I hear a tone – a bit like the whistle of a tea kettle but lower pitched, not loud but not faint – in the distance. I call it the Whistler. I have no idea what causes the Whistler, but it sounds as though it is rather far away and so must be fairly loud Fo at its source. It comes from the Southwest. Were you to come walking with me, I trust you would corroborate all of this and that you would find your ability to do so as unremarkable as I find my rR ability to have made these observations in the first place. Nevertheless, some philosophers have ev argued that we do not enjoy spatial audition – i.e., we do not hear sounds as located in the environment, even in the bare sense of merely off in a given direction or at some particular distance iew (Machlachlan 1989; Malpas 1965; Nudds 20 **Authors:** [[Restricted Auditory Aspatialism]]