Guest professor or visiting fellow at Harvard University, St. Louis University, the Japanese Science Foundation, the Alcatel SEL Stiftungskolleg at the University of Stuttgart, the Aquinas-Foundation (New York), the National Endowments for Humanities, the Historische Kolleg München (Institute for Advanced Stuy) and the Universities of Basel, Bern, Klagenfurt, Lausanne, Luzern, Sankt Gallen, Zürich as well as the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich.

 

Catedra de Excelencia at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (2013).

 

Award of the Prize of the Egnér-Foundation Zürich in 1992 and the Karl-Vossler-Preis for scientific literature of distinguished literary quality written in German (2002) from the Free State of Bavaria Doctor honoris causa of the University of Porto Allegre (1999) and of the University of Belgrad (2009). 

 

Fellow of the Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, fellow and senator of the German National Academy: Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina (since 2008 spokesperson of the section Cultural Sciences, www.leopoldina.org); sole international fellow of the Teheran Academy for Philosophy and Sagacity; Membro académico honorario of the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez in Santiago de Chile; fellow of the Collegium Europaeum Jenense; Honorary Fellow of the Institute for Philosophy and Sociology of the University of Latvia (Riga); Honorary Fellow of the Association of World Citizens (Paris), Swiss Section; Member of the brasilian Kant-Society Sociedade Kant Brasileira.

 

President of the Swiss Ethics Commission NEK-CNE (www.nek-cne.ch).

 

Member of the academic advisory council of the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung; Member of the zentrale Ethikkommission der Deutschen Bundesärztekammer (1997- 2000); Member of the selection commitee of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung (1996-2007). 

 

Member of the Editorial Board of: Applied Philosophy, Ars Interpretandi, Cuadernos de Etica, Dialogo Cientifico, Hobbes Studies, Internationales Jahrbuch für Rechtsphilosophie und Gesetzgebung, IRIS European Journal of Philosophy and Public Debate, International Journal of Applied Philosophy, Jahrbuch politisches Denken, Jahrbuch für Wissenschaft und Ethik, Kantian Review, Philosophie – Ethik, Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia del Diritto, Zeitschrift für Politik (until 2001). 

 

Publications

  • Subsidiarity as a principle in the philosophy of government Regional and Federal Studies Höffe Otfried 1996
  • A subsidiary federal world republic. on the foundation of a cosmopolitan legal order Politische Vierteljahresschrift Höffe Otfried 2006
  • Three pioneers of the modern: Machiavelli, Bacon, Hobbes Merkur Höffe Otfried 2007
  • Equity in the era of globalization Merkur Höffe Otfried 2006
  • I'll readily/willingly serve friends, though I'll do it with unfortunate/reluctant disposition/preference...: Does Schiller's thought on the beautiful soul overcome Kant's antithesis of duty and disposition? Zeitschrift fur Philosophische Forschung Höffe Otfried 2006
  • Kant's universal cosmopolitism Deutsche Zeitschrift fur Philosophie Höffe Otfried 2007
  • Ethics with and without metaphysics: Aristotle and Kant Zeitschrift fur Philosophische Forschung Höffe Otfried 2007
  • Philosophy column: Four cardinal languages of philosophy Merkur Höffe Otfried 2009
  • Pluralistic society and tolerance: A social-ethical perspective Merkur Höffe Otfried 2010
  • Should the affluent society be allowed to ration health? Zeitschrift fur Evidenz, Fortbildung und Qualitat im Gesundheitswesen Höffe Otfried 2010
  • Philosophy column: How strongly do we resemble our biological relatives? Merkur Höffe Otfried 2010
  • -737 784 791 Independent thinking: Immanuel Kant's "An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?" Merkur Höffe Otfried 2010
  • The question of human cloning in the context of the stem cell debate Stem Cells, Human Embryos and Ethics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives Höffe Otfried 2008
  • xv xvi Preface Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics" HÖffe Otfried 2010
  • Ethics as practical philosophy: Methodological considerations(Book I.1-3 [1], 1094A22-1095A13) Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics" HÖffe Otfried 2010
  • Prospect: Aristotle or kant? Against a simple alternative Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics" HÖffe Otfried 2010
  • Philosophy column: Religion in the secular era Merkur Höffe Otfried 2010
  • Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics" Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics" HÖffe Otfried 2010
  • Introduction Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics" HÖffe Otfried 2010
  • Philosophy column: On Anglo-Saxon moral philosophy Merkur Höffe Otfried 2011
  • World history as a legal headway? A Kantian rehabilitation of historical philosophy Merkur Höffe Otfried 2012
  • "People are so necessarily insane": Sketch of an alternative history of philosophy Zeitschrift fur Philosophische Forschung Höffe Otfried 2012
  • Biocentric anthropocentrism: Hierarchies of the living Merkur Höffe Otfried 2013