Andy Hamilton

Andy Hamilton teaches Philosophy, and also History and Aesthetics of Jazz at Durham University, UK. He was also until recently Adjunct Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Western Australia, Perth, and has taught music aesthetics at Hong Kong University. He specialises in aesthetics, political philosophy, philosophy of mind, J.S. Mill and Wittgenstein, and has published Aesthetics and Music (Continuum, 2007), Lee Konitz: Conversations on the Improviser's Art (University of Michigan Press, 2007), The Self In Question: Memory, the Body and Self-Consciousness (Palgrave, 2013), Scruton's Aesthetics, edited with Nick Zangwill (Palgrave, 2011) and The Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Wittgenstein and "On Certainty". He edited The Aesthetics of Rhythm, with Peter Cheyne and Max Paddison (Oxford University Press, 2019), and The Aesthetics of Imperfection, with Lara Pearson (Bloomsbury, 2020). Pianos, Toys, Music and Noise: Conversations with Steve Beresford, is forthcoming with Bloomsbury (2021). At the moment he is working on a monograph on Art and Entertainment (Routledge, 2021). He is a long-standing contributor to "The Wire", "Jazz Review" and "International Piano" magazines, interviewing and writing features on jazz and classical musicians and composers such as Ornette Coleman, Sonny Rollins, Elliott Carter, Kaija Saariaho and Christian Wolff. Visit his official website for more information at www.andyhamilton.org.