Pamfil Danilovich Yurkevich (Russian: Памфи́л Дани́лович Юрке́вич; 28 February 1826 – 16 October 1874) was a Ukrainian philosopher and teacher of philosophy at the Imperial University of Moscow.

[1] In 1851, Yurkevich appointed the position of instructor in Philosophical Sciences at the Kyiv Theological Academy.

Yurkevich's more well known positions and the works that reflected them (The Heart and Its Significance in the Spiritual Life of Man) revolved around the expression and rationalization of essentialism.

Though Yurkevich was an idealist in the sense of Platonic Realism, he was thoroughly Christian in his approach rejecting that the mind of a person as reason was the basis for the essences of things or beings and instead saying that essentialism was idealist (from conscious beings inline with Plato) but it was from the rational part of the being (their mind) and also from the emotional center and that the heart of the person was the complete expression of the person.

Themes work Yurkevich largely determined responsive the subsequent development of philosophical idealism.