Alexander Spirkin (Russian: Александр Георгиевич Спиркин; 1918–2004) 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.
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