ABSTRACT
The argument we just formulated has the form of a dilemma. It tells us, first, that if physicalism is interpreted one way, i.e. as starting point physicalism, something bad happens; second, that if physicalism is interpreted another way, i.e. as some liberalized version of starting point physicalism, something else bad happens; and, third, that these two ways exhaust the field. However, while the argument of the last two chapters is a dilemma that concerns the interpretation of physicalism, it is in fact not the standard dilemma in this area of philosophy. That dilemma is usually called ‘Hempel’s dilemma.’ This chapter focuses on Hempel’s dilemma, and compares it with the one we have just been discussing.
