Alexander Spirkin

Alexander Spirkin
Born	(1918-12-24)24 December 1918 Saratov Governorate, Russian SFSR
Died	Moscow, Russia
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Soviet philosophy
School	Marxism
Main interests	Dialectical materialism, Psychology, philosophical problems of cybernetics

Alexander Spirkin (Russian: Алекса́ндр Гео́ргиевич Спи́ркин; 1918–2004) was a Soviet and Russian philosopher and psychologist. He was born in Saratov Governorate and graduated from the Moscow State Pedagogical University. In 1959 he received his doctorate in philosophy for a dissertation on the origin of consciousness. He became a professor in 1970, and a year later was elected Vice-President of the USSR Philosophical Society. On November 26, 1974, Alexander Spirkin became a Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences. His principal works deal with the problems of consciousness and self-consciousness, worldview, and the subject matter, structure and functions of philosophy. Prof. Spirkin’s Fundamentals of Philosophy (1988; English translation 1990) expounding Marxist–Leninist philosophy in popular form was awarded a prize at a competition of textbooks for students of higher educational establishments.

See also

• Philosophy in the Soviet Union
• Dialectical materialism
• Historical materialism

External links

• A.G. Spirkin’s profile at the website of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Russian)
• Download A.G. Spirkin Fundamentals of Philosophy in DjVu and other formats from Internet Archive