 Similarly, Erin C. Tarver has argued that pragmatists should be wary of importing James’s views wholesale, and on the contrary, that elements of James’s philosophy that presuppose a masculine subject or a too-robust vision of individual autonomy must be “recognized and rejected” (2015, 99). The reason for this is that such presuppositions are often not merely sexist, but have profound ontological and ethical implications that would further entrench anti-feminist social hierarchies. Yet, Tarver frames this willingness to revise or selectively draw from certain elements of James’s thought as consistent with pragmatic fallibilism. She writes, “We must be willing to take James’s fallibilism and deference to new evidence seriously enough to apply it to his own works” (100) rather than dismissing masculine language and assumptions as regrettable instances of sexism that can be overlooked as the product of another time. Thus, according to Tarver, feminist philosophical engagement with pragmatism must be willing to critique and reject, even when engaging with thinkers whose ideas can be useful for feminist aims. 