Andy Hamilton teaches Philosophy, and also History and Aesthetics of Jazz, at Durham University, UK. He is also Adjunct Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Western Australia, Perth.

He specialises in aesthetics, political philosophy, philosophy of mind, J.S. Mill and Wittgenstein, and recently completed Aesthetics and Music (Continuum, 2007), and Lee Konitz: Conversations on the Improviser's Art (University of Michigan Press, 2007).

The Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Wittgenstein and "On Certainty" will appear in 2009, and a monograph Memory and the Body: A Study of Self-Consciousness has been completed.

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.

He is also a jazz pianist.