Add your voice to the 46th Annual International Conference on Critical Thinking!
Present on your experiences, research, triumphs, and challenges in learning critical thinking concepts and tools, applying them to life and work, teaching them to others, etc.
Proposals due April 30, 2026.
Registration is open now for the world's longest-running critical thinking conference, entirely online from July 19th–24th, 2026!
Join us for sessions on critical thinking as it relates to everything from education, economics, and artificial intelligence to social media, professional work, and politics.
In our pathological world, mental suffering comprises an epidemic of the human spirit. Critical Thinking Therapy assumes that gaining healthy command of one's life requires developing control over one's thinking. Learn about the foundations of Critical Thinking Therapy and training available for both therapists and individuals working alone.
The Foundation for Critical Thinking now offers one-on-one virtual tutoring that is customized to your needs and goals regarding critical thinking.
Work with one of our tutors over a ten-week period, with assignments between meetings and direct feedback on your work.
Dr. Linda Elder's Critical Thinking Therapy: For Happiness and Self-Actualization has received a glowing review from Publishers Weekly's BookLife, and was selected as an Editor's Pick. This book introduces a substantive theory of critical thinking to the field of mental health therapy.
Read the review today.
Entirely virtual from July 19 - July 24, 2026. For educators, business professionals, students, and anyone who wants to improve their reasoning for better problem-solving and decision-making.
Save the date for the world's longest-running critical thinking conference.
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.
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