ABSTRACT

But there is one big issue that Nature’s Capacities, in common with most other defenders of capacities or the related analytic method, says little about: How do we know, when we measure a capacity, that it is a capacity that we are measuring? This is the issue that Julian Reiss takes up. He not only asks, ‘Are there capacities governing social phenomena’, but also ‘How can we know whether there are or not?’