@article {Sharadin:2016:0004-8402:343, title = "Nothing but the Evidential Considerations?", journal = "Australasian Journal of Philosophy", parent_itemid = "infobike://routledg/ajphil", publishercode ="routledg", year = "2016", volume = "94", number = "2", publication date ="2016-04-02T00:00:00", pages = "343-361", itemtype = "ARTICLE", issn = "0004-8402", eissn = "1471-6828", url = "https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/ajphil/2016/00000094/00000002/art00009", doi = "doi:10.1080/00048402.2015.1068348", keyword = "evidentialism, rationality of belief, epistemology, transparency, exclusivity, doxastic deliberation", author = "Sharadin, Nathaniel P.", abstract = "A number of philosophers have claimed that non-evidential considerations cannot play a role in doxastic deliberation as motivating reasons to believe a proposition. This claim, interesting in its own right, naturally lends itself to use in a range of arguments for a wide array of substantive philosophical theses. I argue, by way of a counterexample, that the claim to which all these arguments appeal is false. I then consider, and reply to, seven objections to my counterexample. Finally, as a way of softening the blow, I show how the counterexample itself suggests a plausible diagnosis of why this claim has seemed so plausible to so many.", }