ABSTRACT
This chapter contains a very brief introduction to composition, perhaps just framing an issue, followed by an example. It is followed by a short discussion and then a series of questions. Peter Van Inwagen, in his excellent Material Beings, asks people to consider when composition occurs. That is, what people have to do to two or more objects to get them to compose another. The question is known more formally as the special composition question. The example presents a case to think about some lego bricks, separated out in a clear plastic bag. The questions are intended to get the philosophy students thinking about the problems. They have used these kinds of questions in seminars as the questions set for seminars, so they also think that they can be used to spark conversation and discussion. The chapter also gives a cursory sketch of some of the ways in which philosophers have responded to the thought experiment.
