<p>Emergentism has been suggested to be a traditional rival to physicalism. The reason is that the emergentist is committed to non-physical configurational forces, which are never acceptable to physicalists of all stripes. In this paper, however, I will argue that commitment to non-physical configurational forces is not essential to emergentism. Instead, nothing prevents such configurational forces from being physical. Although emergentism is incompatible with microphysicalism, which asserts that physical fundamental forces come into play only at the atomic level of organization, it is compatible with physicalism per se, which allows physical fundamental forces to come into play at certain relatively higher levels of organization. As a result, there is no real objection to the view that emergentism is compatible with physicalism.</p>