The Metaphysical Monkeywork

This is the web page of Stephen Lenhart.

I am a philosophy student. I aspire to attend graduate school and eventually be an academic and a teacher of philosophy. I work on this page in order to become familiar with html so that when I am an instructor, I have a nice web based resource for students in my courses.

Here is a questions that I want answered: is there a rule for whether Latinate words in English are pluralized according to the Latin or English system? For example, 'stimulus' becomes 'stimuli' and 'bacterium' becomes 'bacteria' but 'circus' becomes 'circuses', not 'circi'! If you know the answer email it here. (Note: by 'rule' I have in mind a rule that will allow me to know from the spelling of the word whether it is pluralized according to Latinate or English rules. If there is no such rule but there is reason that certain words are or aren't, e.g. their etymological history, I would be interested to know that instead, even if it doesn't tell me the proper plural form of 'circus' unless I know how circus came into the english language.)

I am still an undergraduate in the philosophy department at the University of North Carolina . I hope to be accepted into graduate school this spring.

This page is an experiment and hence what is collected below is fairly random.


Since I am a philosopher (or, at least, aspire to be one) I have put some of my philosophical work on the web. I welcome criticism of my work.

Here is a list of my philosophical interests:

If you are familiar with philosophy then you probably see that my philosophical interests are nearly everything in the realm of contemporary, analytic philosophy.


I am also an amateur chef. These are some of my own recipes.

These are some nice links: