She obtained a degree in philosophy at the
University of Barcelona, completing her thesis, entitled “
La dimensión pragmática del lenguaje”, in 1975. She has been the vice-rector, lecturer and full professor of ethics at the
Autonomous University of Barcelona. She has participated in the
bioethics committees of the Hospital del mar and of the Hospital de la Vall d’Hebron. Between 1993 and 1996 she was a senator for the
Socialists' Party of Catalonia. She is currently a member of the Bioethics Committee of Spain and collaborates in journals such as “Isegoría” and “Letra internacional”. As a philosopher, she is deemed a very influential author and one of the main inheritors of the thought of philosophers
José Luis Aranguren and
José Luis Ferrater Mora. Her work and ideas cover a vast arrays of topics, from
pragmatics to
theology, and from the exclusion of women from work to ideals of well-being and citizenship in the modern state, together with ethics in communication and in public representation. ==Awards==