Life After 'Life After Kant' Other Minds with Jonas and Merleau-Ponty

This paper examines two twenty-first-century developments in the enactive approach in philosophy and the cognitive sciences. The The second is the 'social turn' that the enactive approach has taken, tory sense-making. We look at these two developments through the lens of the problem of other minds. We argue that they are incompatible due to a residual solipsism in Jonasian phenomenology. Ultimately, this leaves enactive theory with a choice between embracing Jonas or embracing the social turn in enactive theory. We recommend replacing Jonasian influences with those from the late work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty. We argue that enactivism can evade the problem of other minds using Merleau-Ponty's discussion of 'flesh' and 'expression'.