Its my pleasure to welcome Professor Mark White from CUNY Staten Island to the Table.  Mark D. White is Professor in the Department of Political Science, Economics, and Philosophy at the College of Staten Island/CUNY, where he teaches courses in economics, philosophy, and law. He has authored dozens of journal articles and book chapters in the intersections between these fields, has written Kantian Ethics and Economics: Autonomy, Dignity, and Character (Stanford, 2011), and has edited a number of books, including The Thief of Time: Philosophical Essays on Procrastination (with Chrisoula Andreou, Oxford, 2010), Retributivism: Essays on Theory and Policy (Oxford, 2011), and Accepting the Invisible Hand: Market-Based Approaches to Social-Economic Problems (Palgrave, 2010). He is the series editor of Perspectives from Social Economics (Palgrave Macmillan), and the associate editor of the journal Forum for Social Economics (Springer).

Professor White is also a frequent contributor and editor in 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 Batman and Philosophy (with Robert Arp), Watchmen and Philosophy, Iron Man and Philosophy, and Green Lantern and Philosophy (with Jane Dryden), is working on Superman and Philosophy and The Avengers and Philosophy, and contributed chapters to volumes in the series on Metallica, South Park, Family Guy, The Office, the X-Men, Spider-Man, and Alice in Wonderland.

Mark, welcome to the Table!