Mark D. White

Writer, editor, teacher

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I’m a professor in the Department of Philosophy at the College of Staten Island/CUNY, where I teach courses in philosophy, economics, and law, and the author/editor/co-editor of several books.

Category: Physics

  • Superman and Physics… wait, what?

    I know I should be blogging to promote Superman and Philosophy: What Would the Man of Steel Do? (available today), but this was too good not to pass up: Superman explains why he didn't intercept the Russian meteor in February.

  • Pondering the multiverse with the multiversalists (hint: there are 52!)

    The Wall Street Journal this morning contains a review of Brian Greene's The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos; the review was written by John Gribbin , author of In Search of the Multiverse: Parallel Worlds, Hidden Dimensions, and the Ultimate Quest for the Frontiers of Reality. Greene's book (and I…