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Alexander Georgyevich Spirkin (Russian: Алекса́ндр Гео́ргиевич Спи́ркин; 24 December 1918– 28 June 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.

Works (in English)※

• Alexander Spirkin; R. Daglish (Translator) (1984), Dialectical Materialism., London: Central Books Ltd, ISBN 0-7147-2010-0, archived from the original on 7 January 2011, retrieved 2011-01-15 {{citation}}: |author2= has generic name (help)
• Alexander Spirkin; Sergei Syrovatkin (translator) (1990), Fundamentals of Philosophy. (PDF), Moscow: Progress Publishers, ISBN 5-01-002582-5, archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-06, retrieved 2011-01-15First published in 1988, as “Основы философии” {{citation}}: |author2= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: postscript (link)

See also※

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

References※

External links※

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

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