Marleen Moors

Marleen Moors (1979) is a Dutch philosopher, clinical ethicist, and existential–humanist counsellor specializing in existential care, clinical ethics and palliative care. Her work is devoted to the fundamental questions of human existence: meaning and mortality, suffering and love, truth and transcendence. She works as a hospital chaplain and ethicist at VieCuri Medical Center and in hospice and primary care settings, providing existential and spiritual care and supporting patients, families and healthcare professionals facing serious illness, ethical dilemmas, medical decision-making and end-of-life care. In addition, she serves as an ethicist for the Dutch Regional Euthanasia Review Committee.

Educated in philosophy and religious studies at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada and at Radboud University in Nijmegen, where she graduated on the later thought of Martin Heidegger, Marleen’s philosophical work focuses on existential phenomenology, philosophical ethics and metaphysics. Her research explores how experiences of love, longing, beauty, encounter, mortality and finitude, and other limit situations, illuminate and disclose dimensions of human existence that are not readily apparent in ordinary experience.

[Read more about Marleen's professional background here.]

Projects

Marleen is currently working on a long-term, three volume philosophical inquiry, Eros, Truth and the Numinous.

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Contact

For inquiries please contact Marleen or visit her on LinkedIn.

Words, thoughts & media (in Dutch / Nederlands)

Online articles and blog posts at the intersection of philosophy, existential psychology, phenomenology, and healthcare.

For interviews and other media, click here.

Publications

A selection of contributions to Dutch and/or English-language books, journals, and newspapers, with links to PDFs or websites where available.

Research interests

Marleen is an interdisciplinary thinker whose expertise spans multiple fields. Her research reflects an ambitious and integrative approach, drawing on philosophy, medicine, literary studies, cultural analysis, existential psychotherapy and ethics to develop nuanced understandings of contemporary social and cultural practices. She interested in the history of metaphysics, existential phenomenology, philosophy and sociology of religion, philosophy of medicine, medical ethics and existential thought and therapeutic practice. Of particular interest are the works of Martin Heidegger, Irvin Yalom and Ernest Becker.

Marleen is currently working on a study on the meaning of Eros and the numinous in a secular society, where she turns to the philosophical principle of Eros as a force that draws us toward the numinous and shapes our experience of truth.

For access to Marleen's English publications, click here (bottom of the page.)

Training & professional development (in Dutch / Nederlands)

Marleen offers continuing education, courses, and workshops in applied philosophy, spiritual care, and communication for Dutch palliative care professionals, psychologists, and healthcare institutions. Are you a (healthcare) professional who regularly works with patients facing existential dilemmas and questions of meaning? Then read on!

Existential counseling & spiritual care

Marleen Moors offers philosophical consultations and counseling from an existential-humanistic perspective. She holds a private practice in Broekhuizen, Limburg, The Netherlands. You can turn to her for conversations about life questions, existential dilemmas, and philosophical reflection. Currently, the philosophical practice is closed.

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