Alexander Spirkin

Who is Alexander Spirkin?

Alexander Spirkin 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. 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 expounding Marxist-Leninist philosophy in popular form was awarded a prize at a competition of textbooks for students of higher educational establishments.