Noo is noo come. Hi, I'm Peter Adamson and you're listening to the History of Philosophy podcast brought to you with the

support of the LMU in Munich and Kings College London online at www

history of philosophy net. Today's episode will be an interview with Andrew Arleg,

who is associate professor at Brooklyn College,

and we're going to be talking about theories of parts and holes

in medieval philosophy.

Hi Andrew.

Hi.

Thanks for coming in the podcast.

It's my pleasure.

Before we get into the issue about what medieval philosophers say about this topic,

maybe you could just say something general about why philosophers

why philosophers nowadays are interested in parts and holes.

What's so fascinating about this as a philosophical problem?

It's because most of the things we encounter or think exist are complex and therefore they're going to have structure, they're going to have

structure, they're going to have elements and bits that they're going to have structure,

they're going to have elements and bits

that they're made of components.

And as soon as you have these complexity,

these bits and elements and so forth,

you're going to be invited to think about how they're put together.

You're going to be invited to think about the dependence relations that hold between them.

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