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    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:The Spirit of Settler Colonialism and the City Streets:A Response to Mishuana GoemanErin C. Tarveri want thank dr. goeman for her excellent paper and for introducing us to these extraordinary artists. Their work is beautiful and important, and I am grateful for the opportunity to witness it and think about it and to consider in particular in its relation to its setting in Los Angeles.In what follows, I want to consider that setting—a…Read more
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    4 Lady Pragmatism and the Great Man The Need for Feminist Pragmatism
    In Erin C. Tarver & Shannon Sullivan (eds.), Feminist interpretations of William James, The Pennsylvania State University Press. pp. 98-118. 2015.
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    Introduction
    In Erin C. Tarver & Shannon Sullivan (eds.), Feminist interpretations of William James, The Pennsylvania State University Press. pp. 1-12. 2015.
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    The Moral Equivalent of Football
    The Pluralist 15 (2): 91-109. 2020.
    in 2017, a study of the brains of former football players returned some of the most damning evidence to date of the inherent dangers of the game. Of 111 former NFL players' brains examined post-mortem, 110 were found to have the damage associated with chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a brain disease causing serious emotional and behavioral problems—and, often, premature death. That football is physically risky has been known virtually since its advent; what the newest studies suggest is that it…Read more
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    There is one sound that will always be loudest in sports. It isn’t the squeak of sneakers or the crunch of helmets; it isn’t the grunts or even the stadium music. It’s the deafening roar of sports fans. For those few among us on the outside, sports fandom—with its war paint and pennants, its pricey cable TV packages and esoteric stats reeled off like code—looks highly irrational, entertainment gone overboard. But as Erin C. Tarver demonstrates in this book, sports fandom has become extraordinari…Read more
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    On the Particular Racism of Native American Mascots
    Critical Philosophy of Race 4 (1): 95-126. 2016.
    An account of the specific ill of Native American mascots—that is, the particular racism of using Native Americans as mascots, as distinct from other racist portrayals of Native Americans—requires a fuller account of the function of mascots as such than has previously been offered. By analyzing the history of mascots in the United States, this article argues that mascots function as symbols that draw into an artificial unity 1) a variety of teams existing over a period of time and thereby 2) a c…Read more
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    On the Particular Racism of Native American Mascots
    Critical Philosophy of Race 4 (1): 95-126. 2016.
    An account of the specific ill of Native American mascots—that is, the particular racism of using Native Americans as mascots, as distinct from other racist portrayals of Native Americans—requires a fuller account of the function of mascots as such than has previously been offered. By analyzing the history of mascots in the United States, this article argues that mascots function as symbols that draw into an artificial unity 1) a variety of teams existing over a period of time and thereby 2) a c…Read more
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    Feminist interpretations of William James (edited book)
    The Pennsylvania State University Press. 2015.
    A collection of essays examining the writings of William James. Provides a reinterpretation of pragmatism to devise philosophical resources for pragmatist feminism that challenge sexism and male privilege"--Provided by publisher.