Twice during the class (on a day you’ve scheduled), you will give a brief oral report on something you found in a commentary (or in comparable secondary literature). This is intended to be just the sort of thing you might do as a part of ordinary class discussion if you have discovered something about the text that you wished to call others’ attention to, so it is certainly something you might do even when you aren’t scheduled to do so.

For the scheduled reports, I will ask two things—first, that you inform me in advance what you will report on and, second, that your report will be based on something you’ve found in one of the commentaries (or in secondary literature that gives direct attention to specific remarks). To make these requirements more explicit, let me say that you should

That source could be one of the commentaries by Hallett, Baker, and Hacker that are on reserve or one of items of secondary literature suggested on the course web site. It could be something other than these, too; but, if it is, it should be something having a similar character—i.e., something that makes a point of looking closely at particular parts of the text of the Investigations (rather than, say, giving a general introduction to Wittgenstein’s views on some topic). While I’d encourage you to bring things you’ve learned from other sorts of secondary literature into the class discussion, the point of this assignment is in part to get you to look at a particular sort of secondary literature, so I will be a little restrictive about what counts as a way of fulfilling it.