White is a contemporary philosopher working in normative ethics and metaethics, associated with utilitarian moral theory. Their work engages with questions of moral ontology, particularly the identity conditions for moral properties such as wrongness. They defend a naturalist utilitarian position holding that moral wrongness is reducible to failure to maximize utility.
Defended the identity of moral wrongness with the natural property of failing to maximize utility
Contributed to debates in utilitarian moral naturalism and reductive moral realism
Engaged with metaethical questions about the nature and reducibility of moral properties