Joshua Eisenthal (he/him)

My research interests are in the history and philosophy of physics, particularly the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and early analytic philosophy, particularly the philosophy of Wittgenstein. This was a revolutionary period for mathematics, physics, and philosophy; a period when the boundaries between these disciplines were especially porous, and the interactions particularly fruitful. A recurring theme in my research is the topic of representation, whether in the domain of geometry (as a representation of space or spacetime), or in physics more generally (how mathematical theories represent the world), or in language (the nature of a proposition or a symbol). 

Before coming to UW I was based at the Einstein Papers Project at Caltech, and before that I was working on my Ph.D. at the University of Pittsburgh. Once upon a time I was a secondary school (i.e. middle & high school) science teacher in London.