Vladimir Fridman, ornithologist, candidate of biological sciences, senior researcher at the laboratory of ecology and nature conservation, Department of Higher Plants, Faculty of Biology, Moscow State University.
Vladimir specializes in four areas: a) ecology and behavior of woodpecker birds, protection of rare species of this group, b) signals and communication mechanisms of birds and other vertebrates, c) development of modern cities by "wild" species of birds and mammals in population, behavioral and microevolutionary aspects, d) the mechanisms of speciation and the concept of the species in birds.
He is also interested in parallels between animal ethology and the sciences of human behavior and culture (semiotics, social psychology, behavioral economics), which allow the correct transfer of knowledge between these areas and serve as heuristics for research in a "foreign" field.
He assisted domestic linguists and semiotics (S.A. Burlak, A.N. Barulin, B.A. Uspensky) in developing ideas about the origin of language, participated in the discussion of the problem, and provided data on ethology.
Teaches courses in "Environmental Protection" and "Ecology and Sustainable Development of the City" at Moscow State University. Author and co-author of 5 books ("Birds of Russia and adjacent regions. Woodpeckers", "Logic for biologists", "Urbanization of" wild "bird species in the context of urban landscape evolution", "From stimulus to symbol: signals in the communication of vertebrates", "Global ecological crisis. Based on the materials of the course of lectures "Nature Conservation: Biological Foundations, Simulation Models, Social Applications"), more than 100 articles.
At the moment, Vladimir is working on his doctoral dissertation under the working title "Reconstruction of Comparative Ethology and the Problem of Deciphering the Communicative Systems of Vertebrates". It is aimed at overcoming the conceptual crisis of this discipline caused by the suppression of its research program and the establishment of a monopoly of sociobiological concepts. They also turn out to be worse than the repressed ones, both in terms of insoluble contradictions in theory and in much worse correspondence to reality. Why the resolution of the crisis requires the restoration of comparative ethology "on an elevated basis", with the appropriation of objective knowledge about behavior, "obtained" by sociobiologists over these 40 years. Moreover, the further the latter, the better it confirms ethological concepts and does not fit into the native, sociobiological (although the research data was undertaken for this purpose), and taking into account sociobiological criticism where she hit the patient - in the field of the method, but not theory... Practically important results of the work are the further development of the "morphological approach to behavior ", which makes it possible to objectively distinguish units of behavior, show their separateness, the reality of existence describes the specifics of form and function within the framework of a hypothetical-deductive method that tests" assumptions "about dividing the monitored streams of activity into similar units, about reactions to participants and" viewers "of interaction on their presentation, "put forward" by the accumulated impression of the observer (it can be deceiving, how and why is discussed).
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