Mark D. White

Wow, an update is less than a month–it's like a Christmas miracle. 😉

The biggest news: the cover for Superman and Philosophy is finally available (as you can see to your right and also in the "book batch" to the left). I also posted the table of contents at The Comics Professor (and to the page for the book at this site as well). As I said before, I really like how the layout and title font match Batman and Philosophy–I hope the Superman book finds the same devoted audience that the Batman book did.

In other superhero-and-philosophy news, my lead chapter from The Avengers and Philosophy, "Superhuman Ethics Class with the Avengers Prime," will be excerpted in issue 60 of The Philosophers' Magazine. (The chapter in its entirety is available for free here, courtesy of Wiley-Blackwell.)

Also, the Blu ray for The Dark Knight Rises is out (or–ahem–so I'm told), and I'm featured on disc 2 in the documentary on the Batmobile. See the YouTube preview below:

Meanwhile, I'm trying finish up the semester and preparing for the American Philosophical Association and Allied Social Science Associations meetings while proofing and indexing The Manipulation of Choice–unlike most of my work, I'm very happy with how this book turned out. For that reason and several others (including thematic similarity and intended audience), I decided to reformat the idea for my Stanford Brief into a follow-up to The Manipulation of Choice. The proposal is currently under review at Palgrave, and I hope to start reworking the journal editorial based on its theme soon. (It was a huge relief to make that decision–you'll remember from my previous post how this was driving me nuts.)

Finally, today's Hot Topic at Psychology Today is "I Love Me!", and it leads off with two of my posts ("Loving Yourself—How Important Is It?" and "Can Self-Compassion Help the Self-Loathing Person?"). (For more of my posts on self-loathing, see here.) I also have a new PT post since my last update: "Knowing the One You Love: Lessons from 'The Vow'" (November 23).