Blogging is fun

Today, I boldly decided to enter the blogosphere. My decision was driven in part by a desire to be heard, in part by the crushing boredom associated with performing due diligence. I will kick things off with a scintillating post that will be of interest to potentially one person: Just how do I reconcile being a non-cognitivist and a consequentialist? I can just imagine you, the reader, bristling after reading the "about me" portion of this blog. I will leave you in suspense no longer. More importantly, how I managed the seemingly logically impossible task of being both a non-cognitivist and a consequentialist will be unknown to the world no longer:

I accept the non-cognitivist thesis at least to the extent it holds that moral statements are not truth functional in an absolute sense. Contra strict non-cognitivism, I hold that moral statements are truth functional, however, relative to the rules of an ethical system. The ethical system I happened to have adopted is consequentialism. I agree that non-relative moral facts do not exist. Pace Hume, however, I believe that moral facts do exist once one adopts an ethical system.

So now you know. As with magic tricks, the fun is in not knowing how the trick was pulled off. Once you know, you can't help but think, "That's it?!" Unfortunately, loyal readers, that's it.
Having been infinitely enlightened and epistemically sated, you will surely now lead a fuller, richer life that might even be worth living.

- Mr. M