Can Theories Be Refuted? Essays on the Duhem-Quine Thesis

Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1976. Near Fine/Very Good. Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1976. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in grey and white dust jacket; xxi,[1],318pp. Jacket extremities lightly rubbed and toned, spine panel more so with faint damp-spotting, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else a Near Fine copy in Very Good jacket.

Includes contributions by both Pierre Duhem and Willard van Orman Quine, as well as Karl R. Popper's "Background Knowledge and Scientific Growth.