Capacities and the good is a research project funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), starting 1st April 2021. It is directed jointly by Erasmus Mayr (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg) and Barbara Vetter (FU Berlin). It aims to better understand the different and philosophically important connections between capacities on the one hand and normativity on the other.

Capacities and the good cooperates closely with the Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities "Human Abilities."