Wittgenstein: Lectures, Cambridge 1930-1933

David G. Stern is a Professor of Philosophy and a Collegiate Fellow in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Iowa. His publications include Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations: An Introduction (Cambridge, 2004) and Wittgenstein Reads Weininger (co-edited with Béla Szabados, Cambridge, 2004). Brian Rogers is an attorney in Los Angeles. He has a PhD in philosophy from the University of California, Irvine, and has published in journals including The Review of Symbolic Logic and the Nordic Wittgenstein Review. Gabriel Citron is a Postdoctoral Associate in Jewish Philosophy and Lecturer in Philosophy at Yale University. He has published in journals including Mind and Philosophical Investigations.

• Editorial introduction; Synoptic table of contents; Lectures, Cambridge, 1930–3: from the notes of G. E. Moore: Lent term, 1930; May term, 1930; Michaelmas term, 1930; Lent term, 1931; May term, 1931; May term, 1932; Michaelmas term, 1932; Lent term, 1933; May term, 1933; Appendix: Moore's short paper on Wittgenstein on grammar; Biographies; Moore's abbreviations; Bibliography; Index.

'The material presented in this edition is of the first importance to Wittgenstein scholarship. It helps us narrow in on early but richly developed steps in Wittgenstein's thinking on issues to do with meaning and understanding, the notion of 'grammar', rule following, notions of sense and nonsense, and the foundations of logic and mathematics … The editorial approach laid out in the rich introduction and demonstrated in the main sections of the edition seems to me to be just right, striking a balance between completeness and faithfulness, on the one hand, and readability on the other … this edition helps get us closer to hearing more fully and more directly what Wittgenstein said in his lectures from this period.' Jeff Johnson, St Catherine University, Minnesota