Staff
Dr AJ Hamilton, MA, M.Phil, PhD
Senior Lecturer/Admissions Tutor in the Department of Philosophy
Biography
Andy Hamilton studied at St Andrews University for his MA, M.Phil and PhD. His PhD, awarded 1987, was "The Self and Self-Consciousness", and his supervisor Crispin Wright. He subsequently taught at every pre-Thatcherite university in Scotland except Aberdeen and Glasgow, was a Leverhulme Research Fellow at Sheffield 1988-90, and then a Lecturer at Stirling and Keele before arriving at Durham in 1994. He has supervised a range of PhD students in philosophy of mind and aesthetics. He has been working on the topic of self-consciousness since his Ph.D., although he now recognises, rather late in the day, that it is simply too difficult. However, he has published several articles on it in Philosophical Quarterly, European Journal of Philosophy and Australasian Journal of Philosophy; a monograph "Memory and The Body: Exploring Self-Consciousness", will soon be published. His areas of research are Philosophy of Mind, History of 19th and 20th Century Philosophy, and Wittgenstein, but he is now working more in Aesthetics and Political Philosophy, and has published articles in British Journal of Aesthetics. A monograph, "Aesthetics and Music", was published by Continuum in 2007, and a book on improvisation, "The Art of the Improviser", written with jazz saxophonist Lee Konitz, appeared in the same year, published by Michigan University Press. The Routledge Philosophy Guidebook "Wittgenstein and On Certainty" is due to appear in 2010. He is a jazz pianist and writes for "The Wire" and other contemporary music magazines on contemporary composition and improvised music. Please visit www.andyhamilton.org.uk for further information and articles on Philosophy, and music.Administrative duties
Admissions Tutor
Second Year Tutor
Staff Development Officer
Research Groups
- Value
Research Interests
- Aesthetics
- History of analytic philosophy
- Philosophy of mind
- Political philosophy especially liberalism
- Wittgenstein
Selected Publications
Books: edited
- ed. Hamilton, Andy & Zangwill, Nick 2009. Scruton's Aesthetics.
- ed. Hamilton, Andy & Montgomery, Will 2009. The Nature of Rhythm: Aesthetics, Music, Poetics.
Essays in edited volumes
- Hamilton, Andy 2009. 'The Sound Of Music'. In Sounds and Perception: New Philosophical Essays. Nudds, M & O'Callaghan, C Oxford: Oxford University Press. (forthcoming). (Additional information)
- Hamilton, Andy 2006. Against the Belief Model of Delusion. In Reconceiving Schizophrenia. Chung, M., Fulford, W. & Graham, G. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 217-234. (Additional information)
- Hamilton, Andy 2005. Proprioception as Basic Knowledge of the Body. In Basic Belief and Basic Knowledge: Papers in Epistemology. Woudenberg, R, Roeser, S & Rood, R Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag. Philosophical Research 4: 269-292.
- Hamilton, Andy 1998. Phenomenalism and the self. In The Cambridge Companion to J.S. Mill. Skorupski, J. Cambridge University Press.
Journal papers: academic
- Hamilton, Andy 2007. 'Music and the Aural Arts'. British Journal of Aesthetics 47(1): 46-63. (Additional information) (View publication online)
- Hamilton, Andy 2007. Indeterminacy And Reciprocity: Contrasts And Connections Between Natural And Artistic Beauty. Journal of Visual Art Practice (Additional information)
- Hamilton, Andy 2007. Intention and the Authority of Avowals. Philosophical Explorations (Additional information)
- Hamilton, Andy 2003. Scottish Commonsense About Memory: A Defence of Thomas Reid's Direct Knowledge Account. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 81(2): 229-245. (Additional information) (View publication online)
- Hamilton, Andy 2003. The Art of Recording and The Aesthetics of Perfection. British Journal of Aesthetics 43(4): 345-362. (Additional information) (View publication online)
- Hamilton, Andy 2000. The authority of avowals and the concept of belief. European Journal of Philosophy 17 20-39
- Hamilton, Andy 1998. False memory syndrome and the authority of personal memory-claims. Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology 4 283-97
- Hamilton, Andy 1995. A New Look at Personal Identity. Philosophical Quarterly 45 332-49
Journal papers: popular
- Hamilton, Andy 2003. Spectral Composition. The Wire (237). (Additional information)
- Hamilton, Andy 2000. Christian Wolff. The Wire (202). (Additional information)
Monographs
- Hamilton, Andy 2009. The Autonomy of Art. in preparation.
- Hamilton, Andy 2007. Aesthetics and Music. London: Continuum. (Additional information)
- Hamilton, Andy 2007. Lee Konitz: Conversations on the Improviser's Art. Ann Arbor: Michigan University Press. (Additional information) (View publication online)
