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Custom Online Intensive Workshops & Short Courses for Your Institution or Business

The Foundation for Critical Thinking offers customized webinars and six-week online training programs on critical thinking in a multitude of topics, enabling us to custom-design a learning experience for your institution based on your needs and goals.

Call for Proposals

We need your voice! Submit a proposal to present at The 44th Annual International Conference on Critical Thinking.

Proposals are due May 19th by midnight PDT.

Critical Thinking Podcast

Only in the Center for Critical Thinking Community Online !

Join Drs. Linda Elder and Gerald Nosich, international authorities on critical thinking, as they break new ground in the podcast Critical Thinking: Going Deeper .

Free Webinar: Why a Thriving Democracy Requires Critical Thinking

Join Dr. Linda Elder April 10th at 7:00 p.m. EDT (4:00 p.m. Pacific). This Webinar Q&A will begin to explore how and why critical thinking is essential to flourishing democracies and will discuss some of the intrinsic barriers to cultivating and maintaining democracies.

The 44th Annual International Conference on Critical Thinking

Join us for the world's longest-running conference on critical thinking!

The 44th Annual International Conference on Critical Thinking
takes place July 21 - 26, 2024 and is entirely online with sessions for all backgrounds, experience levels, and time zones.

Full-Semester Courses in Critical Thinking

Fall 2024 Registration Open Now! Study under the guidance of a first-generation Paulian Scholar from the comfort of your home or office!

Complete coursework on your own time with continual feedback!




I found that I was fitted for nothing so well as for the study of Truth . . . with desire to seek, patience to doubt, fondness to meditate, slowness to assert, readiness to consider, carefulness to dispose and set in order . . . being a man that neither affects what is new nor admires what is old, and that hates every kind of imposture.

~ Francis Bacon (1605)

OUR MISSION

For more than 40 years, our goal has been to promote
essential change in education and society by cultivating
fairminded critical thinking — thinking which
embodies intellectual empathy, intellectual humility,
intellectual perseverance, intellectual integrity, and
intellectual responsibility.