Alexander Lvovich Dobrokhotov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Льво́вич Доброхо́тов; born 8 September 1950) is a Russian philosopher, historian of philosophy, historian of culture, and university Professor. He holds the title of Distinguished Professor at Lomonosov Moscow State University. He specialises in the history of Russian culture, history of philosophy, metaphysics, Russian philosophy, ancient and medieval philosophy, Kant and German Idealism, and philosophy of culture. He is a Visiting Senior Research Fellow, King’s College London; and a Researcher at the Independent Institute of Philosophy (Institut de philosophie indépendant; IPHI) in Paris, France. (The Independent Institute of Philosophy was founded in November 2022 by Russian philosophers who left the Russian Federation in dissent from the politics of the Russian authorities that led to a humanitarian catastrophe as a result of the military aggression against Ukraine.)

From 1967 to 1972, Alexander Dobrokhotov was an undergraduate student in philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy, Moscow State University. From 1972 to 1975, he was a graduate student in philosophy at the Department of Western Philosophy History, Faculty of Philosophy, at Moscow State University. In 1978, he defended his PhD dissertation (‘kandidatskaya’) titled 'Parmenides' Teachings on Being’. In 1990, he defended his second dissertation (‘doktorskaya’) titled 'The Category of Being in Ancient Philosophy of the Classical Period’.

Alexander Dobrokhotov started his academic career as a historian of Ancient Greek Philosophy and as an interpreter of Parmenides' and Heraclitus’ theories of being. His studies resulted in several books, one of which, ‘The Category of Being in Classical West-European Philosophy’ (1986), summarises his main ideas.

From 1988 to 1995, Dobrokhotov was the chair of the Department of Cultural History of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. Between 1994 and 2010, Dobrokhotov was a Professor at the State Academic University for the Humanities. From 1995 to 2009, Alexander Dobrokhotov was the head of the History and Theory of World Culture Department at the Faculty of Philosophy, Moscow State University. The Department was created in 1990. Many prominent Soviet and Russian scholars like Viacheslav Ivanov, Sergei Sergejewitsch Awerinzew, Aron Gurevich, Mikhail Gasparov, Georgii Knabe, Yeleazar Meletinsky, Vladimir Romanov, Tatiana Vasilieva, Nina Braginskaia, Vladimir Bibikhin have worked there. From 1995 to 2015, Alexander Dobrokhotov taught at the Graduate School of European Cultures (VSHEK) which is an international training and research centre at Russian State University for the Humanities (VSHEK was established in April 2007 and replaced the Institute of European Cultures). Between 2005 and 2017, Dobrokhotov was the head of the Department of Culturology at Saint Tikhon's Orthodox University. From 2009 until April 2024, Alexander Dobrokhotov is also a professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE), at the School of Cultural Studies (in the autumn of 2020, the School of Cultural Studies merged with the School of Philosophy and the School of Philosophy and Cultural Studies was established). He teaches various courses on philosophy, philosophy of culture, metaphysics and theology, history of Russian culture. In 2010, he became a tenured professor at HSE.

Today, Alexander Dobrokhotov is a leading Russian philosopher of culture and prominent scholar in culturology. He often appears on television. In 2021, Alexander Dobrokhotov left Russia. Since April 2024, he runs his own YouTube channel.

Alexander Dobrokhotov is a member of the International Advisory Board of the journal Studies in East European Thought.

Since 1989, he has been a member of the International Association of Researchers in Greek Philosophy (Athens, Greece).

Since 1995, he has been a member of the International Genealogical Society (Oslo, Norway).