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|name = Alexander Spirkin
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|birth_place = [[Saratov Oblast]], [[USSR]]
|death_date = {{Death date and age|2004|6|28|1918|12|24}}
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|school_tradition = [[Marxism]]
|main_interests = [[Dialectical materialism]], [[Psychology]], philosophical problems of [[cybernetics]]
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'''Alexander Spirkin''' ({{lang-ru|Спиркин, Александр Георгиевич}}; 1918—2004) was a [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] and [[Russia]]n 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.<ref>{{cite web
 | url = http://www.i-u.ru/biblio/persons.aspx?id=1484 
 | title = Спиркин Александр Георгиевич
 | accessdate = 2011-01-15
 | year = 
 | publisher = Russian Internet University for the Humanities
 }}</ref> 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]].<ref>{{cite web
 | url = http://www.ras.ru/win/db/show_per.asp?P=.id-2337.ln-ru.dl-.pr-inf.uk-12  
 | title = Alexander Spirkin’s biography {{Ru icon}}
 | accessdate = 2011-01-15
 | year = 
 | publisher = [[Russian Academy of Sciences]]
 }}</ref> 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 [[Marxism–Leninism|Marxist-Leninist]] philosophy<ref>viz., dialectical and historical materialism.</ref> in popular form was awarded a prize at a competition of textbooks for students of higher educational establishments.

== Works (in English) ==
*{{citation
|year= 1984
 |author= Alexander Spirkin
 |authorlink= 
 |author2= R. Daglish (Translator)
|title= Dialectical Materialism.
 |place= [[London]]
 |publisher= Central Books Ltd
 |isbn= 0-7147-2010-0
|url= http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/spirkin/works/dialectical-materialism/index.html
|accessdate= 2011-01-15
|postscript= }}
*{{citation
|year= 1990
 |author= Alexander Spirkin
 |authorlink= 
 |author2= Sergei Syrovatkin (translator) 
|title= Fundamentals of Philosophy.
 |place= Moscow
 |publisher= [[Progress Publishers]]
 |isbn= 5-01-002582-5
|url= http://su-ltd.mylivepage.ru/file/2715/6528_Spirkin_Al.-Fundamentals_of_Philosophy.pdf 
|accessdate= 2011-01-15
|postscript=&nbsp;&nbsp;First published in 1988, as “Основы философии” }}

== External links ==
* [http://www.ras.ru/win/db/show_per.asp?P=.id-2337.ln-ru A.G. Spirkin’s profile] at the website of the [[Russian Academy of Sciences]] {{Ru icon}}
* [http://www.archive.org/details/FundamentalsOfPhilosophy_913 Download A.G. Spirkin ''Fundamentals of Philosophy''] in DjVu and other formats from [[Internet Archive]]

== See also ==
* [[Philosophy in the Soviet Union]]
* [[Dialectical materialism]]
* [[Historical materialism]]

==References==
{{reflist}}


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| 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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[[Category:Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences]]
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[[pl:Aleksander Spirkin]]
[[ru:Спиркин, Александр Георгиевич]]