ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book. The book provides an overview of current attempts to draw parallels between art and science, focusing on representation. It draws on Budd's isomorphism-based account of depiction to claim that representation in both science and art can be accommodated within such an account. The book discusses the claim that art, like science, 'embodies, conveys and often constitutes' understanding, in the sense that that both use the same symbolic resources for the same ends. The book argues that, like fictions, scientific models have an ambiguous representational relationship to the world, in that it may just not be clear whether a given feature of the model represents some feature in the world or is an artefact of the model. It explores certain avenues along which the philosophy of science may be applied to the philosophy of art, specifically the philosophy of music.
