Alexander Spirkin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Alexander Spirkin

philosopher

Date of Birth: 24-Dec-1918

Place of Birth: Arkadaksky District, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russia

Date of Death: 28-Jun-2004

Profession: philosopher

Nationality: Russia

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Alexander Spirkin (Russian: ??????´??? ???´??????? ???´????; 1918–2004) 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.