PRACTISE PROFILE
Therapeutic Informatics identifies with the views of the
eminent Kees Waaijman that we are living in a challenging or
inviting reality that includes the mysteries of life and the
various challenges and opportunities of every day and
endeavors to empower people to deal with these demands
through the principle of the individualisation of the
therapeutic value of information.
MISSION
Therapeutic Informatics is inspired by the insights of the
famous French philosopher, Paul Ricoeur, who stated that the
way in which we understand and orientate ourselves in the
world is always indirect and is facilitated by the
interpretation, but also the application of the research
generated by the sciences. The practice is therefore driven
by the mission to support people in dealing with challenging
and inviting realities of whatever nature by mediating the
relevant research output from the respective sciences to
them and by empowering them to understand the various
presuppositions and commitments of moral thought, talk and
practice.
ABOUT WILLEM MOORE
After completing his theological studies in 1982 and acting
as head of the Language Laboratory of the University of
Stellenbosch from January 1983 until July 1988, Willem took
up the position of Minister of the Dutch Reformed
Congregation of Suiderhof in Windhoek in August 1988. In the
next couple of years, he obtained Masters degrees in
Theology and Philosophy and left the service of the Church
in 2002 to start lecturing Philosophy and Business and
Medical Ethics at the University of Namibia in respectively
2003, 2011 and 2012. Willem obtained his DPhil in Ethics
from Stellenbosch University in 2010 and left the full time
service of the University of Namibia in 2013 to head
Therapeutic Informatics. He is a Certified Ethics Officer of
the Ethics Institute of South Africa and serves as ethicist
on the Board of the South African Medico-Legal
Association.
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