ABSTRACT
Our situation with respect to the mind-body problem is (in a way) analogous to the situation in physics at the end of the nineteenth century. 1 Classical electrodynamics was in serious difficulties; it had no fully acceptable way to accommodate the results of a variety of experiments — such as the MichelsonMorely experiment; a solution was found only when Einstein abandoned the classical structure. Somewhat similarly, current physicalist conceptions of mind and body face serious difficulties, and-so I contend —we need to abandon this ‘classical structure’ and find a new way of conceiving of the relation between mind and body; however, I will not, in what follows, definitively establish that we should abandon physicalism. My aim is to raise a challenge, a challenge that is a first step toward the rethinking that I take to be necessary.
