Alexander Spirkin
Alexander Spirkin (Russian: Спиркин, Александр Георгиевич; 1918—2004) was a Soviet and Russian philosopher and psychologist. He was born in Saratov Oblast and graduated from the Moscow State Pedagogical University. In 1959 he received his doctorate in philosophy for a dissertation on the origin of consciousness.[1] 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.[2] 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[3] in popular form was awarded a prize at a competition of textbooks for students of higher educational establishments.
Works (in English)
- Alexander Spirkin; R. Daglish (Translator) (1984), Dialectical Materialism., London: Central Books Ltd, ISBN 0714720100, http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/spirkin/works/dialectical-materialism/index.html, retrieved 2011-01-15
- Alexander Spirkin; Sergei Syrovatkin (translator) (1990), Fundamentals of Philosophy., Moscow: Progress Publishers, ISBN 5-01-002582-5, http://su-ltd.mylivepage.ru/file/2715/6528_Spirkin_Al.-Fundamentals_of_Philosophy.pdf, retrieved 2011-01-15 First published in 1988, as “Основы философии”
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| Persondata |
| Name |
Spirkin, Alexander |
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| Short description |
Philosopher |
| Date of birth |
December 24, 1918 |
| Place of birth |
Saratov Oblast, USSR |
| Date of death |
June 28, 2004 |
| Place of death |
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