MERRILL RING
PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FULLERTON
SCHOLARLY ACTIVITY
(I)BOOKS
Beginning with the Pre-Socratics
Mayfield Publishing Company, 1987
(II)REFERREED PUBLICATIONS
'Moore's Paradox: Assertion and Implication'
Behaviorism, Vol. 1, 1973, pp. 87-102, (Kent Linville, co-author)
'Descartes' Intentions'
Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 3, 1973, pp. 27-49
Anthologized in; Rene Descartes:Critical Assessments, ed.
Georges J.D.Moyal, Croom Helm (London), 1991, pp.487-510
'Knowledge: The Cessation of Belief'
American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 14, 1977, pp. 51-59
'Aristotle and the Concept of Happiness'
in The Greeks and the Good Life, ed. David Depew, Hackett Publishing Co and CSUF, 1980, pp. 69-90
'Sensations and Kinaesthetic Knowledge'
Philosophy Research Archives, 1982, Vol. 8, pp.111-168
'Baker and Hacker on Section One of the Philosophical
Investigations', Philosophical Investigations, Vol. 6, 1983, pp.259-275
'Infallibility, Knowledge, and the Epistemological Tradition'
International Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 33, 1983, pp. 367-381
'Reply to Siemens'
Philosophical Investigations, Vol. 9, 1986, pp. 225-228
'Moore's Paradox Revisited'
Kent Linville and Merrill Ring, Synthese, Vol. 87, 1991, pp. 295-309
Anthologized in: Wittgenstein in Florida, ed., Jaako Hintikka, D. Reidel (Dortrecht), 1991
'"Bring Me a Slab!": Meaning, Speakers and Practices'
in Wittgenstein's Investigations: Text and Context, ed. Robert L. Arrington and Hans-Johann Glock, Routledge (London), 1992, pp. 123-134
(III) REVIEWS, ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES, ETC.
'Vick's Thesis: Representation and Authority', The Personalist, 1972
Essays in Masterpieces of World Philosophy, rev. ed., ed. Ian McGreal, Salem Press, 1982
'Plato's Crito: Literature Review', Vol. 1
'Plato's Meno: Literature Review', Vol 1
'Descartes' Meditations: Literature Review', vol. 2
'G.E. Moore' s Philosophical Studies: Literature Review', Vol. 4
'A.J. Ayer's Language, Truth and Logic: Literature Review', Vol. 5
'John Wisdom's Psycholanalysis and Philosophy: Literature Review', vol. 5
'Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations: Literature Review', Vol.5
Review of Science, Revolution and Discontinuity, by John Krige (Harvester Press, 1979), Philosophical Books, Vol. 23, 1982
Review of Better Reasoning, by Larry Wright (Holt, Rinehart Winston, 1982), Critical Thinking News, Vol. 2, 1983
Review of Quine on Ontology, Necessity and Experience: A Philosophical Critique, by Ilham Dilman (Macmillan, 1984), Philosophical Investigations, Vol. 9, 1986
Review of Heraclitus: Fragments, by T.M. Robinson (U of Toronto Press, 1987), Philosophical Books, Vol. 39, 1988
Review of Trying to Make Sense, by Peter Winch (Blackwell, 1987), Canadian Philosophical Reviews, Vol. 8, 1988
Review of Perplexities: Rational Choice, The Prisoner's Dilemma, Metaphor, Poetic Ambiguity, and Other Puzzles, by Max Black (Cornell, 1990), Canadian Philosophical Reviews, Vol. 10, 1990
Review of The Looking Glass Self: An Examination of Self-Awareness, by John Canfield (Praeger, 1990), Canadian Philosophical Reviews, Vol. 12, 1992
Review of This Complicated Form of Life, by Newton Garver (Open Court, 1993), Canadian Philosophical Reviews, Vol. 15, 1995
'Knowing and Believing', UC Irvine, 1966
'Kinaesthetic Knowledge', Pacific APA, 1966
'Sensations of Pleasure', Pacific APA, 1969
'Vick's Thesis: Representation and Authority', Second Annual Conference on Political Philosophy, Institute for Humane Studies,USF, 1971
'Moore's Paradox', University of Nevada, Reno, 1973
'Knowledge and Belief', CSU Fullerton, 1973
'Knowledge and Belief' CSC Bakersfield, 1974
'Socrates and Aeschylus on Retribution', CSU Fullerton, 1975
'Retribution in the Crito', University of Oregon, 1976
'What is the Meaning of a Word?', CSU Fullerton, 1976
'Art in a Technological Society', Pacific APA, 1977
'Skepticism and the Possibility of Error', CSU Fullerton, 1977
'Aristotle and the Concept of Happiness', 9th Annual Philosophy Symposium, CSU Fullerton, 1979
'Infallibility, Knowledge and the Epistemological Tradition', University of Sussex, 1981
'Rationality and the Copernican Revolution: The New Philosophy and History of Science', Brighton (England) Astronomical Society, 1981
'Quine's Two Dogmas: A Polemic', CSU Fullerton, 1982
'Rationality and the Copernican Revolution', Pomona Valley Astronomical Society, Pomona College, 1983
'On Using Sentences', CSU Fullerton,1984
'Parmenides', CSU Long Beach, 1984
'Parmenides', CSU Fullerton, 1986
'Truth and the Type-Token Distinction', CSU Fullerton, 1988
'Commenary on Sections 19(b) and 20 of the Philosophical Investigations', Wittgenstein Centenial Conference, Bielefeld and Berlin, West Germany, 1989
'Passing Sentence on Sentences', Philosophical Society, University of Sussex,
1990
'Eisenstein on Religion', Pacific APA, 1992
'Reinterpreting Wittgenstein on Essence', CSU Fullerton, 1992
'Sentences', Second Annual Interdisciplinary Linguistics Symposium, CSU Fullerton, 1993
'On Making the Weaker Argument Defeat the Stronger', CSU Fullerton, 1994
'Misreading the Dilemma in the Euthyphro', Pacific APA, 1996
'Philosophical Smorgasbord', CSU Fullerton, 1997
