Born on 15 December 1955 in Biržai.
Graduated from Vilnius 31st (now Tuskulėnai) secondary school. 1972-1978 studied psychology-philosophy at Vilnius University. Doctor of Humanities - in 1986 she defended her doctoral thesis "The Pragmatist Concept of William James's Truth". 1980-1984 postgraduate student at the Department of History of Philosophy, Vilnius University. In 1984 she joined Vilnius Pedagogical University (now the Lithuanian University of Education): 1984-1988 assistant professor at the Department of Political Science, 1988-1990 assistant professor at the Department of Philosophy, 1990-2003 associate professor at the Department of Philosophy, and since 2003 professor at the Department of Philosophy. She teaches moral philosophy, philosophical anthropology, and postmodern philosophy at higher education institutions. Author of many textbooks. She has published critical articles and essays in the cultural periodicals "Kultūros barai", "Metai", "Literatūra ir menas", "Šiaurės Atėnai", "Nemunas", etc. Member of the editorial boards of the magazines "Problemos", "Istorija", "Athena", member of the expert commission on social and moral education of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Lithuania. She has translated articles and essays into English, French, Swedish and Esperanto.