The epistemological status of scientific observation (an interview)

Alexander Alexandrovich Nikolsky is a Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor, and Chief Researcher in the Department of the History of Biological and Chemical Sciences at the S.I. Vavilov Institute of Natural History, Russian Academy of Sciences. He is a distinguished naturalist, evolutionary ecologist, and the founder of a new field—bioacoustic research into mammalian communication. For over half a century, Alexander Alexandrovich recorded animal voices in the wild across the vast expanse of Northern Eurasia. He is the creator of a unique sound library and the author of over 400 scientific papers.