[3] In December 2014 Carpinschi was awarded the 2012 Mircea Florian prize of the Romanian Academy for his book on recognition culture and human security, and its contribution to the development of Romanian culture and science in the fields of philosophy, theology, psychology and pedagogy.
[4] Born in Tulcea in 1947, Carpinschi attended the Spiru Haret Dobrujan College in his home town.
[5] He then moved to the city of Iași, where he would study at the faculty of philosophy of Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, from which he graduated in June 1970.
Carpinschi started his academic career at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University immediately after graduation in 1970, as an assistant teaching marxist philosophy at the faculty of philology.
[11] The last years of Carpinschi's twelve-year service as head of department were marked by controversy, first due to his own re-appointment in 1999, which was criticised on the grounds it contravened a two-term limitation recently approved by the university,[12] and later due to the appointment of Carpinschi's sister as a lecturer in the department he directed.