Ian Ground is Vice-President of the British Wittgenstein Society and a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. He has published on topics in the philosophy of Wittgenstein, aesthetics and philosophical issues concerning the understanding of animal minds.
F. A. Flowers III is a retired appellate lawyer. In addition to being the author of several legal publications, he is the Editor of the First Edition of this work, and Co-Editor of the Second Edition, as well as the Editor of Leo Tolstoy's The Gospel in Brief (1997), a book which had a profound effect on Wittgenstein's life. He presently lives in Dotham, Alabama.