Prof. Michael Hatcher is Assistant Professor – Philosophy and Critical Thinking at FLAME University. He received his Doctorate in Philosophy from University of Southern California. He has completed MA in Philosophy from California State University of Los Angeles and BA in Philosophy from Biola University.

Prof. Michael has over three years of work experience and was associated with Valparaiso University.

He loves introducing students to the philosophical conversation and the skills required to do it effectively. He also enjoys thinking about what beliefs are, what sort of control we have over them, and under what conditions we are blameless in holding them. In addition, he takes great pleasure in applying the tools of philosophy to question religious practices – for example, the question of what ‘praying without ceasing’ consists of.

JOURNAL ARTICLES

• Hatcher, M. (2022). Do we need an account of prayer to address the problem for praying without ceasing? Religious Studies, First View, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034412522000087


• Hatcher, M. (2022). Blameworthiness, Control, and Consciousness Or A Consciousness Requirement and an Argument For It. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Early View. https://doi.org/10.1111/papq.12405


• Hatcher, M. (2018). Accessibilism Defined. Episteme, 15 (1), 1-23.
  https://doi.org/10.1017/epi.2016.36


• Hatcher, M. (2013). Reid’s Third Argument for Moral Liberty. British Journal for the History of Philosophy 21 (4), 688-710. https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2013.771613