__NOTOC__ Alexander Georgyevich Spirkin (; 24 December 1918– 28 June 2004) was a

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n philosopher and psychologist. He was born in

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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

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. 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.

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Alexander Spirkin, ''Dialectical Materialism''

A.G. Spirkin ''Fundamentals of Philosophy''
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Spirkin, Alexander 1918 births 2004 deaths Soviet philosophers Soviet psychologists 20th-century Russian psychologists 20th-century Russian philosophers Corresponding Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences Communist Party of the Soviet Union members

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