Andy Hamilton: "Rhythm and Time: A Major and Neglected Philosophical Problem"

Andy Hamilton teaches Philosophy at Durham University. He has just completed Lee Konitz: Conversations on the Improviser's Art (University of Michigan Press, 2007), and Aesthetics and Music Continuum, 2007). A monograph Memory and the Body: A Study of Self-Consciousness is forthcoming, and he also specializes in political philosophy, J.S. Mill and Wittgenstein. He is a long-standing contributor to "The Wire" 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. He is a jazz pianist.