Mark D. White

Mark D. White is a Professor and founding Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the College of Staten Island (CUNY), where he has taught since 1998 and served as department chair since 2011. His academic work bridges economics, philosophy, and law, with a focus on Kantian ethics in economic decision-making and policy.

• Education:
  • PhD, University of Cincinnati
  • BSBA, Ohio Northern University

Professor White’s research explores the intersection of Kantian ethics with economics, law, and popular culture. He is the author of Kantian Ethics and Economics (2011), The Manipulation of Choice (2013), and Batman and Ethics (2019), while also editing The Oxford Handbook of Ethics and Economics (2019) and the Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture series. His work emphasizes the application of philosophical principles to real-world economic and ethical dilemmas.

His publications span 15 recent works, including books and edited volumes, focusing on ethics in economics, Kantian frameworks, behavioral economics, and philosophy in superhero narratives. Notable subfields include virtue ethics, time preference theory, media ethics, and policy foundations.

He actively contributes to public discourse through his blogs at Economics and Ethics and The Comics Professor, and has been interviewed globally on topics ranging from economic ethics to philosophical themes in comics and film.