• DOI:10.1080/00048402.2015.1068348
Corpus ID: 170865225

Nothing but the Evidential Considerations?

@article{Sharadin2016NothingBT,
  title={Nothing but the Evidential Considerations?},
  author={Nathaniel Sharadin},
  journal={Australasian Journal of Philosophy},
  year={2016},
  volume={94},
  pages={343 - 361}
}

• Nathaniel Sharadin
• Published 2016
• Philosophy
• Australasian Journal of Philosophy

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… Expand

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