Although its title links this book to the evidence-based practice movement, Jenicek and Hitchcock’s text only tangentially addresses the clinical epidemiology, decision theory, and biostastistics that are the conventional tools of EBP. Instead, they set out to write a text anchoring the application of evidence within a framework of formal logic derived from the study of philosophy. Their underlying goal is to improve health care and teaching by improving critical thinking skills in medicine.

I read the book with interest. The first half provides an introduction to the theory and practice of logic. The authors provide …