Mark D. White is Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the College of Staten Island/CUNY, where he teaches courses in philosophy, economics, and law, and is also a member of the economics faculty at the Graduate Center of CUNY. He is the author of eleven books: "Kantian Ethics and Economics" (Stanford University Press), "The Manipulation of Choice," "The Illusion of Well-Being," and "The Decline of the Individual" (all from Palgrave Macmillan), "The Virtues of Captain America: Modern-Day Lessons on Character from a World War II Superhero" (2014 and 2024 editions) and "Batman and Ethics" (both from Wiley Blackwell), "A Philosopher Reads Marvel Comics' Civil War," "A Philosopher Reads Marvel Comics' Thor," and "A Philosopher Reads Marvel Comics' Daredevil" (all from Ockham Publishing), and "Rights versus Antitrust" (Agenda Publishing), as well as over seventy journal articles and book chapters in the intersections between economics, philosophy, and law. He has edited or co-edited a number of books on these subjects, including "The Oxford Handbook of Ethics and Economics," "Economics and the Virtues: Building a New Moral Foundation" with Jennifer A. Baker, and "The Thief of Time: Philosophical Essays on Procrastination" with Chrisoula Andreou (all from Oxford University Press), and has edited two book series: Perspectives from Social Economics (Palgrave Macmillan) and On Ethics and Economics (Rowman & Littlefield International).

He is also a frequent contributor and editor for the Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series, which introduces readers to basic philosophical concepts using the movies, TV shows, comic books, and music that they love. He has edited or co-edited volumes on Batman, Watchmen, Iron Man, Green Lantern, Superman, Doctor Strange, and the Avengers, and contributed to volumes on Black Panther, Wonder Woman, Spider-Man, the X-Men, Black Sabbath, Metallica, South Park, The Office, Family Guy, and Alice in Wonderland.