---
abstract: "Researchers from the 1940's through the present have found that normal, sighted people can echolocate - that is, detect properties of silent objects by attending to sound reflected from them.  We argue that echolocation is a normal part of our conscious, perceptual experience.  Despite this, we argue that people are often grossly mistaken about their experience of echolocation.  If so, echolocation provides a counterexample to the view that we cannot be seriously mistaken about our own current conscious experience."
altloc:
  - http://www.ucr.edu/philosophy/schwitz.html
chapter: ~
commentary: ~
commref: ~
confdates: ~
conference: ~
confloc: ~
contact_email: ~
creators_id: []
creators_name:
  - family: Schwitzgebel
    given: Eric
    honourific: ''
    lineage: ''
  - family: Gordon
    given: Michael S
    honourific: ''
    lineage: ''
date: 2000-09
date_type: published
datestamp: 2001-05-09
department: ~
dir: disk0/00/00/14/91
edit_lock_since: ~
edit_lock_until: ~
edit_lock_user: ~
editors_id: []
editors_name: []
eprint_status: archive
eprintid: 1491
fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png;/1491/3/Echo000925.pdf
full_text_status: public
importid: ~
institution: ~
isbn: ~
ispublished: ~
issn: ~
item_issues_comment: []
item_issues_count: 0
item_issues_description: []
item_issues_id: []
item_issues_reported_by: []
item_issues_resolved_by: []
item_issues_status: []
item_issues_timestamp: []
item_issues_type: []
keywords: 'echolocation, audition, hearing, consciousness, phenomenology, introspection, self-knowledge'
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:38
latitude: ~
longitude: ~
metadata_visibility: show
note: ~
number: ~
pagerange: ~
pubdom: FALSE
publication: ~
publisher: ~
refereed: FALSE
referencetext: ~
relation_type: []
relation_uri: []
reportno: ~
rev_number: 12
series: ~
source: ~
status_changed: 2007-09-12 16:38:14
subjects:
  - percep-cog-psy
  - phil-epist
  - phil-mind
succeeds: ~
suggestions: ~
sword_depositor: ~
sword_slug: ~
thesistype: ~
title: 'How Well Do We Know Our Own Conscious Experience? The Case of Human Echolocation'
type: preprint
userid: 1765
volume: ~
<script src="//archive-bar.soton.ac.uk/archive-bar.js"></script>