I am professor of theoretical philosophy at Freie Universität Berlin, and co-director both of "Capacities and the Good" and of the Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities "Human Abilities“. My research focusses on the metaphysics and epistemology of capacities: what is it to have a capacity or ability (as opposed to a mere disposition), and how can we know which capacities we and others have when those capacities remain unexercised? Within „Capacities and the Good“, I also plan to think some more about what’s good about having capacities.