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.[1]
Alexander Spirkin | |
|---|---|
| Born | 24 December 1918 |
| Died | June 28, 2004 (aged 85) Moscow, Russia |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Soviet philosophy |
| School | Marxism |
Main interests | Dialectical materialism, Psychology, Philosophical problems of cybernetics |
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 in popular form was awarded a prize at a competition of textbooks for students of higher educational establishments.
Works (in English)
edit- 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”
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See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Спиркин Александр Георгиевич". Russian Internet University for the Humanities. Archived from the original on 2011-09-30. Retrieved 2011-01-15.
- ^ "Alexander Spirkin's biography". Russian Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 2011-01-15.
External links
edit- 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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