🧠 Here's the latest in philosophy news and discussions, curated for you on March 10, 2023: 1. **Russ Colton** explores the concept of need and its relation to harm and danger avoidance in his paper "On Needing What We Require to Avoid Harm (and More)." He offers two analyses of need that address the shortcomings of existing accounts and sheds light on the normative significance of having needs. 2. **Simon Schüz** tackles the consensus view on transcendental arguments, specifically addressing Barry Stroud's substitution objection. He argues for the validity of world-directed transcendental arguments by demonstrating their necessity in upholding our standard for objectivity. 3. **Wayne C. Myrvold and John D. Norton** engage with each other's work on fluctuations and Landauer’s principle, finding their analyses to be compatible and contributing to the understanding of physical processes at a fundamental level. 4. **Willem E. Frankenhuis, Karthik Panchanathan, and Paul E. Smaldino** discuss how theoretical ambiguities in social science research can lead to misleading conclusions due to incentives, such as the desire for consistent support by journals, funding agencies, and hiring committees. 5.
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